Shocking video filmed in abandoned Al-Nasr Hospital allegedly shows bodies of babies ‘left to die’ after city was besieged by IDF

•  WARNING DISTRESSING FOOTAGE
• Five Palestinian children were allegedly left to die in Al-Nasr Hospital 
• Staff said they were forcibly made to leave the hospital by IDF soldiers
• A human rights NGO has called for international bodies to investigate 

A human rights organisation has called on the global community to independently investigate why five Palestinian children were allegedly left to die in the Al-Nasr Hospital in Gaza after staff were forcibly evacuated by the IDF. 

The Switzerland-based Euro-Mediterranean Human Rights Monitor (Euro-Med) said it was able to ‘confirm that it documented the discovery of five infants dead and in a state of decomposition’ in a neonatal ward of the Al-Nasr Hospital. 

The human rights monitor, which is headed up by former UN special rapporteur Richard Falk, said that the babies were left to die three weeks ago after staff were made to leave the hospital by the IDF, which attacked the hospital and surrounded it with its tanks. 

Sickening, but heavily censored, footage first shared by Arabic-language news channel Al Mashhad, shows five bed filled with what are allegedly the bodies of infant children. 

Hospital equipment, including health monitoring devices, appear to be long out of service, while the room itself appears to be in a state of abandonment. 

Sickening, but heavily censored, footage first shared by Arabic-language news channel Al Mashhad, shows five bed filled with what are allegedly the bodies of infant children

Hospital equipment, including health monitoring devices, appear to be long out of service, while the room itself appears to be in a state of abandonment.

MailOnline has not yet been able to independently verify the footage

MailOnline has not yet been able to independently verify the footage. 

A spokesperson for the Hamas-run Gaza Health Ministry backed up the claims, adding that they were ‘premature.’ 

The spokesperson claimed that Israeli soldiers had blocked access to the ward where the children were found on Tuesday night. 

The hospital’s director, Dr. Mustafa Al-Kahlot, previously told CNN that he had called on several international organisations for help, but Euro-Med says he received no reply. 

Dr. Al-Kahlot said three weeks ago that the hospital was attacked twice by the IDF, and caused its facilities to be rendered useless, leading to the death of a child due to oxygen deprivation. 

‘One attack targeted the hospital’s gate and the other was directed at the departments in the hospital,’ he said at the time. 

‘No one could reach the hospital and ambulances on the road were also targeted,’ he added. 

Video footage published by Arabic-language media appears to show at least two IDF tanks lying in wait in the area surrounding Al-Nasr. 

The IDF said at the time that it had opened up evacuation corridors from Al-Nasr, as well as the nearby Al-Shifa and Al-Rantsi hospitals. 

The BBC reported that both Al-Nasr and Al-Rantsi were evacuated ‘save for a handful of patients and staff’. MailOnline could not verify the status of the people left behind. 

Video shared at the time shows people, including patients and staff, under gunfire waving white flags under orders from the IDF to show they were not combatants.

It is not clear where exactly the gunshots came from, or who fired them.  

The IDF consistently accused Hamas of using hospitals across Gaza as hideouts since it began its retaliation against the terror group’s October 7 incursion, and used this as justification to wage war in the areas around major hospitals, including Al-Nasr. 

The IDF consistently accused Hamas of using hospitals across Gaza as hideouts since it began its retaliation against the terror group’s October 7 incursion

The White House backed the claims up earlier this month, saying it had its own intelligence that it was using Al-Shifa (pictured) to run its military operations and store weapons.

The White House backed the claims up earlier this month, saying it had its own intelligence that it was using Al-Shifa to run its military operations and store weapons. 

‘We have information that confirms that Hamas is using that particular hospital for a command and control mode’ and probably to store weapons, national security spokesperson John Kirby told reporters aboard Air Force One at the time. 

‘That is a war crime.’ 

‘To be clear, we do not support striking a hospital from the air. We do not want to see a firefight in a hospital where innocent people, helpless people, sick people are simply trying to get the medical care they deserve,’ he said. 

The bloodiest conflict between Israel and Hamas in decades has led to thousands of civilians dying. 

Hamas killed 1,200 people during its incursion on October 7, according to an Israeli count, while nearly 15,000 civilians have been killed in retaliatory strikes by the IDF in the nearly eight weeks that the conflict has gone on for. 

The bloodiest conflict between Israel and Hamas in decades has led to thousands of civilians dying

Hamas killed 1,200 people during its incursion on October 7, according to an Israeli count, while nearly 15,000 civilians have been killed in retaliatory strikes by the IDF in the nearly eight weeks that the conflict has gone on for

The Ministry of Health, which the UN has said is a reliable source of information, said that roughly 6,000 Palestinian children have been killed in Gaza since October 7

Experts told the New York Times last week that the rate at which civilians in the Gaza Strop, most of whom have been women and children, have been killed is shocking. 

The Ministry of Health, which the UN has said is a reliable source of information, said that roughly 6,000 Palestinian children have been killed in Gaza since October 7. 

A 2022 UN report said that last year, less than 3,000 children were killed in total across all the world’s major conflict zones. 

The UN’s chief António Guterres warned earlier this month: ‘Gaza is becoming a graveyard for children. 

‘Hundreds of boys and girls are reportedly being killed or injured every day. 

‘The unfolding catastrophe makes the need for a humanitarian ceasefire more urgent with every passing hour.’

Hamas tonight handed over twelve Israeli and four Thai hostages on the sixth and seemingly final day of the precarious and temporary ceasefire truce. 

The ceasefire deal was on Monday extended by two days, hours before the initial agreement was due to end. 

The terms of the truce agreement pausing the fighting in the Gaza Strip say it can be extended beyond its initial four-day term as long as 10 hostages are released for each extra day, with three times as many Palestinians freed in return. 

The deal is understood to have gone down to a wire and seemed on the verge of unravelling. Hamas had accused Israel of failing to keep its side of the bargain and Israel was threatening to resume its lethal onslaught on the Gaza Strip.

But mediators were able to pull it back from the brink, a feat that involved the first ever public visit by Qatari officials to Israel, according to AP.

It is not currently known when, or if, the ceasefire deal will be extended.  

MailOnline has contacted Euro-Mediterranean Human Rights Monitor

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