Qatari Newspapers Editorials
Doha, November 19 (QNA) - In their editorials Sunday, Qatari newspapers strongly denounced the heinous Israeli massacres and the crimes of ethnic cleansing and genocide committed by the Israeli entity against Palestinian civilians, the latest of which was the evacuation of the Al-Shifa hospital, forcing patients, wounded, displaced people, and medical staff to leave, as well as the hideous massacre committed in Al-Fakhoura School, which houses thousands of forcibly displaced people.
The newspapers emphasized that these odious crimes require urgent international investigation, including the dispatch of independent UN investigators, to uncover the facts surrounding Israeli occupation forces' continuous targeting of schools and hospitals. These crimes also require the international community to fulfill its ethical and legal responsibility in holding Israel accountable and deterring it from committing further crimes against civilians, as well as providing necessary protection for the displaced.
Under the headline "Al-Fakhoura Massacre...New Insult to International Community," Al-Sharq daily said that the successive massacres, genocides, ethnic cleansing, and genocide committed by the Israeli occupation forces against innocent Palestinian civilians continue every day. The latest of these is the heinous massacre committed at Al-Fakhoura School, which is run by the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA), and houses thousands of forcibly displaced people. The attack resulted in the martyrdom and injury of hundreds, most of whom were children and women. The bombing targeted the displaced people while they were asleep.
Since the beginning of the aggression on Oct. 7, schools, hospitals, educational institutions, mosques, and public and private properties have remained targets for the occupation's aircraft, artillery, and naval vessels in an open war of genocide, targeting Palestinian civilians before the eyes of the international community, the newspaper pointed out.
In conclusion, Al-Sharq said that the State of Qatar has repeatedly warned that the international community's silence regarding war crimes and crimes against humanity committed by the Israeli occupation against the Palestinian people would exacerbate tensions, widen the circle of violence, and lead to further escalation and instability.
In its editorial titled "Grave War Crimes", Al-Watan newspaper said that the Israeli army destroyed oxygen stations, water lines, and medicine warehouses in Al-Shifa Hospital after its forced evacuation, except for cases unable to move, such as wounded, sick, and premature babies, as coordination was made with the United Nations to evacuate them as well.
The newspaper considered the events at Al-Shifa hospital and the horrific massacre committed by Israeli forces at Al-Fakhoura School, which houses thousands of forcibly displaced people, as war crimes that add to the black record of the aggression on Gaza. The main targets of this aggression were civilians, hospitals, healthcare facilities, bakeries, water and power facilities, telecommunications, and schools. These are major crimes that the Western world is still unable to see their unprecedented repercussions.
Amidst this horrifying scene, the State of Qatar affirmed that the Israeli occupation forces' bombing of Qatar Committee for the Reconstruction of Gaza headquarters last week would not deter it from providing assistance to Gaza, stressing that this crime constitutes a blatant violation of international law and an extension of the targeting of humanitarian, the paper added.
In conclusion, Al-Watan referred to the State of Qatar's statement delivered by HE Permanent Representative of the State of Qatar to the United Nations Sheikha Alya Ahmed bin Saif Al-Thani at the informal plenary meeting on the humanitarian situation in the Gaza Strip, which took place in New York, saying that Qatar has sent around ten planes carrying more than 358 tons of aid, including a field hospital, shelter supplies, medical supplies, and food, to the Egyptian city of Arish since the beginning of the crisis, warning of the danger of the policy of collective punishment, including forced displacement.
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Al-Raya newspaper said that on Saturday, Israel increased its record of successive massacres, crimes of ethnic cleansing and genocide against Palestinian civilians, the latest of which was when it forced the evacuation of Al-Shifa Hospital, making the sick, wounded, displaced, and medical teams leave by force, in addition to the hideous massacre it committed in Al Fakhoura School, which shelters thousands of forcibly displaced people.
It added that the occupation's massacres in the Gaza Strip have not stopped since the start of the aggression on Oct. 7, as schools, hospitals, educational institutions, mosques, bakeries, and public and private property were main targets of Israeli aircraft and artillery.
Al-Raya noted that the evacuation of the Shifa Hospital building constituted an Israeli attempt to complete the cycles of execution and genocide of Palestinian presence in Gaza, adding that the Israeli entity also committed a massacre by targeting Al Fakhoura School, which is affiliated with the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA) and served as a safe haven for hundreds of displaced Palestinians, leading to the death of dozens, the majority of whom were children and women, in addition to many wounded.
The newspaper concluded by noting that video clips showed large numbers of martyrs and wounded after the school was targeted, in addition to charred corpses and body parts of children and women. Al Fakhoura School was subjected to direct bombardment by occupation aircraft on Nov. 4, which led to the death and injury of dozens of Palestinians. The refugees receive aid and services from UNRWA, which runs the 8 refugee camps in the Gaza Strip. The Agency also runs 26 schools and 2 health centers in the Jabalia camp. The United Nations announced the death of at least 71 people and the injury of 573 others among the displaced who were distributed among 154 buildings that were opened as shelter in the Gaza Strip since the outbreak of war on Oct. 7.
In a related editorial, the English-language newspaper The Peninsula said that Gaza is under naked barbarism of Israel where its military is employing cruel power against innocent civilians including children and women, attacking hospitals and bombing schools.
The newspaper said that the State of Qatar condemned in the strongest terms the Israeli occupation’s renewed bombing of Al Fakhoora School in Jabalia Camp, north of Gaza, which led to the martyrdom of dozens, majority of them are children and women, and considered it a horrific massacre, a brutal crime against defenseless civilians, and a blatant violation of the principles of international law and international humanitarian law.
It added that the Ministry of Foreign Affairs renewed the State of Qatar’s demand for an urgent international investigation, which includes sending independent UN investigators to investigate the facts regarding the Israeli occupation forces’ continued targeting of schools and hospitals.
It noted that more than 11,500 Palestinians have been killed in the war, according to Palestinian health authorities, and another 2,700 have been reported missing.
The newspaper concluded its editorial by pointing out that the National Human Rights Committee (NHRC) called upon the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights to urgently work in cooperation with all stakeholders to apply strong pressure to put an immediate end to the Israeli occupations aggression against the Gaza Strip. (QNA)
