Medical Journal Accuses Israel Over Deaths in Gaza Conflict

An editorial in a BMJ-owned journal—which has now been changed—claimed hundreds of deaths at Al-Ahli hospital in Gaza were caused by an ‘air strike.’
Medical Journal Accuses Israel Over Deaths in Gaza Conflict
Amid the tragic aftermath of the bombing of Gaza's Al-Ahli Baptist Hospital, doctors at Al-Shifa Hospital gather to make a press statement, surrounded by lifeless Palestinian bodies, on Oct. 17, 2023. Mohamed Masri/Middle East Images/AFP via Getty Images
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An online editorial in a BMJ-owned journal said an explosion at the Al-Ahli Arab Hospital in Gaza was caused by an “air strike” and went on to accuse Israel of “deliberate targeting of limbs ... in occupied Palestine.”

The editorial, published on Oct. 21 by BMJ Global Health, a peer-reviewed online journal, went on to say the violence in Gaza was “an extension of the systematic campaign of violence and oppression against the Palestinian people, and [any credible commitment to—and movement for—health justice] must interrogate its root causes accordingly.”
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