Watan-Palestinian activists have circulated a shocking story about the Israeli occupation soldiers raping a pregnant woman in the Al-Shifa Medical Complex in the city of Gaza.
The rape of a pregnant woman in front of her children and husband at the Al-Shifa compound
Activists quoted the husband of a woman who was raped by occupation soldiers as saying: “They ordered her to undress and began to beat her… She told the army she was five months pregnant, not to beat her, but they continued to beat her. After hours, they took out all the women except the pregnant woman, and her children… They took her in front of her husband and children and raped her, ordering the men not to close their eyes or they would be shot.”
This story emerged alongside the revelation by a Palestinian woman named Jameela Al-Hessi, besieged in the vicinity of the Al-Shifa Medical Complex in western Gaza City, that Israeli soldiers raped and killed women in the vicinity of the compound.
In a phone call with Al Jazeera on Saturday, she said that the occupation forces burned and killed entire families, adding that the occupation forces burned a building where locals were taking shelter.
اغتصاب نساء وقتلهم داخل مستشفى وفي رمضان شهادة صادمة ومرعبة وبطير العقل ، ولما تتدخل في تفاصيل واحده من تلك القصص بتكره نفسك وحياتك والعالم .
على لسان زوج واحدة من تلك النساء : “أمروها بخلع ملابسها وبدأوا بضربها قالت للجيش أنا حامل بالشهر الخامس ما تضربوني، استمروا بضربها، وبعد…— Tamer | تامر (@tamerqdh) March 23, 2024
She said: “We don’t even have water to break our fast, and we don’t know where to go.”
Al-Hessi said that the occupation forced 65 families to leave the vicinity of the compound, according to Al Jazeera.
She confirmed that there is no presence of the Red Cross and they cannot provide water for us, and that the displaced people in the compound have not found food or water for six days.
She explained that the children in the compound cannot even find salty water to drink. She said, “We are trapped amid continued Israeli shelling.”
“قوات الاحتلال اغتصبت نساء وقتلتهن، وأحرقت وقتلت عائلات بأكملها”.. الفلسطينية جميلة الهسي المحاصرة بمحيط مجمع الشفاء تدلي بشهادتها للجزيرة#حرب_غزة #الأخبار pic.twitter.com/EdOFp1dJDc
— قناة الجزيرة (@AJArabic) March 23, 2024
The Israeli occupation army continues for the sixth day in a row to invade Al-Shifa Hospital, which housed more than 7,000 patients and displaced persons, carrying out extensive arrests among the displaced, and shelling the homes surrounding the hospital, resulting in dozens of deaths and injuries.