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Al Jazeera
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Urooba Jamal

Why does Israel target Palestinian hospitals? Psyops, say analysts

A Palestinian child wounded in an Israeli attack is assisted at Nasser Medical Complex in Khan Younis in the southern Gaza Strip [File: Mohammed Salem/Reuters]

Israeli tanks close in on a Palestinian hospital. Doctors and medical staff are warned that they must leave — with or without patients in need. Artillery assaults follow, even if thousands of people are still inside.

On Monday, it was the turn of the Indonesian Hospital in Beit Lahia, Gaza. At least 12 people have been killed in Israeli attacks on the facility, even as armoured vehicles edge closer and closer to the hospital.

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