Humanitarian law is effectively being buried under the rubble of Gaza alongside thousands of children, women and men, writes Isabel Simpson, executive director of Médecins Sans Frontières IrelandHospital staff treat an injured youth at the Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital in Deir al-Balah, central Gaza Strip, on April 9th, 2024. Photograph: AFP/Getty, airstrikes damaged several hospitals and a clinic supported by Médecins Sans Frontières/Doctors Without Borders .
Hospitals have been reduced to rubble, while ambulances and vehicles have been targeted and destroyed. Gaza’s largest hospitals, Al-Shifa in the north and Nasser in the south, are now in ruins. Palestinian forensic and civil defence personnel recover human remains at Al-Shifa hospital, Gaza's largest, which has been badly damaged in Israeli strikes, on April 8th, 2024, as Israel's war against Hamas continues. Photograph: AFP/Getty