When Were the Corpses Brought to Shifa?
Complicating the picture even further, Hass had reported on Oct. 18 that the fatalities suffered during the reported attack on Wael s home were not recovered until two days later. She described how nine surviving but injured family members were left behind in the home with the corpses. Later, in the same article, she wrote, Only on Wednesday, January 7, did the IDF allow the Red Cross and Red Crescent crews to enter the neighborhood . . . the grandmother told them about the wounded children who remained behind, among the dead, in Wael s house. In contrast, an Associated Press report by Ibrahim Barzak from Jan. 5, the same day as the reported attack on Wael s house, reported that children s bodies were already in the hospital morgue: Wailing in grief, Salah Samouni banged his head against a wall inside the hospital morgue where the bodies of his three young nephews lay on the floor Monday. After 10 days of a relentless Israeli assault, Shifa Hospital, Gaza’s largest, is overwhelmed. Bod
