PATRICK LAWRENCE: Decency Becomes Indecent

 At this point, Washington’s defense of Israel becomes as baldly obscene as the apartheid state’s long record of lawless aggression toward the Palestinian population. 

Man with body bags in Jabalia, Gaza Strip, Oct. 9. (Bashar Taleb, Palestinian News & Information Agency, or Wafa, in contract with APAimages, Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 3.0)

Global outrage erupts over Israeli bombing of Gaza hospital

Statementof the WSWS Editorial Board

October 18, 2023

On Tuesday, the Israeli military dropped a massive GPS-guided bomb on the Al-Ahli Arab Baptist Hospital in Gaza City, killing more than 500 medical personnel, patients and refugees. The hospital, operated by the Anglican Christian Church, had been sheltering over 1,000 people who were displaced by the bombing. 

 

 Bodies of Palestinians killed by an Israeli airstrike at the Al-Ahli Arab Baptist Hospital are gathered in the front yard of the Al-Shifa Hospital in Gaza City, central Gaza Strip, on Tuesday, October 17, 2023. (AP Photo/AbedKhaled) [AP Photo/Abed Khaled]