Doctors for the IDF: "Shifa is not a hospital - it is a home for a terrorist organization and it must be destroyed"

[this is coming from the 4th most read paper in Israel doctor sign letter expressing support for idf to bomb hospitals as they are "terrorist nests".]

excerpt A group of doctors expressed their protest against the cynical use of the Hamas terrorist organization in hospitals and in particular the large Shifa Hospital in the Gaza Strip. In an official letter, they wrote: "As soon as murderous terrorist organizations built murder and terror headquarters as an integral part of the hospitals - they turned the hospitals into a legitimate target."

It was also noted that: "Any place where people hide and/or is used for terrorist activity is a legitimate target for destruction - even if it is hospitals. No more! The residents of Gaza who saw fit to turn hospitals into terrorist nests in an attempt to take advantage of Western morality, are the ones who brought about themselves their destruction - terrorism must be eliminated everywhere and in every way."

One of the doctors said: "Medical centers are protected areas from the harm of military personnel because the place heals and saves human life. Any place under which there are caches of weapons and nests of terrorists does not save human life, but on the contrary - harms human life. It is the duty of the State of Israel to destroy any place that threatens the lives of its citizens".

Another doctor said: "I fight all my life to save human life, but at the same time, Shifa is not a hospital but a house of terror. It is a terrorist machine that kills us. I personally treated patients from the horrific massacre. We have no choice but to eliminate terrorism." Dr. Hana Katan said: "I will do as much as I can to guard and protect the IDF soldiers and return them safely to their homes. It is the IDF's duty to bomb the terrorists hiding in the hospitals in Gaza."

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letter in link below from another source

Israeli doctors urge the bombing of Gaza hospitals

editors note: raised in a family where doctors are held with high prestige, it confused me that such rhetoric would be uttered by those in that profession to justify the bombing of a hospital.