Israel shows graphic images of October 7 Hamas victims to UN's top court as it hits back at 'profoundly distorted' genocide case brought by South Africa

"South Africa also alleges that Israel has waged an assault on Gaza has health system. What South Africa has neglected to bring before the court, however, is the overwhelming evidence of Hamas military use of such hospitals.

Hamas militants retreated to NTC Hospital in Gaza on October 7, with hostages from Israel, whom they then held in the basement. 

And this slide before you you will see a militants going into hospital with an RPG. Hamas fired at IDF forces from near and from within the hospital. At Shifa Hospital, Gaza is largest Hamas managed operations from a closed off area. Here you can see an opening to the tunnel that ran for hundreds of meters directly under the hospital. Here you can see the weapons found in different wings of the hospital. And here, CCTV footage showing armed militants bringing hostages into the hospitals logging. 

More than 80 militants hiding inside another hospital the Guan hospital surrender themselves to the IDF. And here you can see a weapon that IDF forces discovered hidden inside incubators at the hospital. 

The director of the hospital has admitted that numerous members of hospital staff belong to Hamas military wing and the Indonesian hospital. Hamas forces managed their operations from that hospital until the IDF reached IDF forces recovered the bodies of five murdered hostages from a tunnel dug underneath the hospital. 

The list goes on in every single hospital that the IDF has searched in Gaza. It has found evidence of Hamas military use. Israel is acutely aware that because of Hamas' use of hospitals as shields for its military operations, a grave violations of international humanitarian law,  patients and staff are at risk. 

This is why the IDF has reached out to every hospital and offered assistance and relocating patients and staff to safer areas. 

Hospitals have not been bombed. Rather, the IDF sent soldiers to search and dismantle military infrastructure, reducing damage and disruption. Indeed, the tunnel that sat directly under the main building and Shifa Hospital was excluded without damaging the building above. The IDF then withdrew from the hospital. 

Yes, damage and harm have occurred as a result of hostilities, in hospitals vicinity, sometimes by IDF fire, sometimes by Hamas, but always as a direct result of Hamas' method of warfare."