The dawn strike at Al-Ahli Hospital in Gaza is the latest in several attacks on the last major hospital in northern Gaza, providing critical health care.
The hospital director Dr. Fadel Naim said the emergency room, pharmacy and surrounding buildings were severely damaged, affecting more than 100 patients and dozens of employees.
Gaza’s Ministry of Health said a girl, a girl, died during the evacuation after Israel’s warnings, because staff were unable to provide urgent care. Israel said it attacked Hamas command and control centers in hospitals, but provided no evidence. Hamas denied the charge.
The Al-Ahli Hospital is run by the Bishop of Jerusalem, which condemned the attack and said in a statement that it took place “the beginning of Palm Sunday, the holiest week of the Christian year.”
Palm commemorates Jesus’ entry into Jerusalem on Sunday, and believers in Gaza mark the worshippers of Jesus in a church, with its gilded trim and complete walls contrasting with the extensive debris elsewhere.
Video from the Associated Press shows that the hospital is in trouble surrounded by rubble. Dr. Munir Al-Boursh, Director-General of the Ministry of Health, said the patient was taken away in the bed and slept on the street.
“There is no safety inside the hospital or the entire Gaza area,” said the injured man Mohammad Abu Nasser, who sat outdoors in bed and watched the destruction.
The hospital temporarily discontinued its services and the patient was transferred to other hospitals in Gaza City, the Ministry of Health said. Since the beginning of the war, Palestinian aid group Medical Aid has called it the fifth attack on Al-Ahli.
Under international law, hospitals have special protections. Israel sieges and raids several times and accused Hamas of using it as cover for fighter planes.
Last month, Israel attacked the Nasser Hospital of Khan Younis, the largest southern Gaza state, killing two people and causing a fire, the Ministry of Health said. The facility was flooded last month when Israel ended a two-month ceasefire with a surprise air strike.
According to staff at Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital, a few hours later, the charity killed a car in Deir Al-Balah in central Gaza, which included six brothers, including six brothers, including six brothers. The youngest brother is 10 years old.
Their father, Ibrahim Abu Mahadi, said his sons worked for a charity that distributes food to Palestinians. “Because what crime did they have been killed?” he said.
A reporter from the Associated Press saw the bloody car in chaos as relatives cried on the body. Israel’s army asserted that it killed the deputy head of Hamas’ sniper cell.
An air strike on Sunday afternoon hit a house in the northern Gaza city of Jabalia, killing at least seven people, including two women, according to Indonesian hospitals.
A pregnant woman was rescued from the ruins. Alaa Manoun later learned that her youngest daughter died with her husband and mother. Two other daughters, 4 and 7, were injured.
According to the doctor, Manno had a broken ankle, but otherwise it was OK. No scans were made because the only machine in northern Gaza was in the now-damaged Al-Ahli Hospital.
“We don’t know who this is, whose body it is,” said neighbor Abdallah Dardouna. “No resistance, no Kasam, no Hamas, no people here. There are only civilians here.”
Another strike by Deir Al-Balah attacked a municipal building and killed at least three people, according to Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital. At least three people on strike were killed in Khan Yunis, according to staff at Nasser Hospital.
The Israeli military said in a statement that over the past 48 hours, it has attacked more than 90 radical targets, including command and control centers, tunnels and weapons. The military also said it had intercepted projectiles fired from Gaza.
The war began with Hamas-led militants killing 1,200 people, mainly civilians, and capturing 250 people in the October 7, 2023 attack on southern Israel. Many people were eventually released by a ceasefire deal.
Israeli authorities vowed to put pressure on Hamas to release the remaining 59 hostages, 24 people believed to be alive and accept the new ceasefire clause. It cut off all supplies from Gaza a month ago.
According to the Gaza Ministry of Health, more than 50,000 Palestinians were killed in Israel’s retaliatory offensive, which did not distinguish between combatants and civilians, but said more than half of the dead were women and children.
The Israeli military missiles in Yemen said that a missile was launched in Yemen on Sunday afternoon and details are under review. The sirens were heard in Israel and several areas of the occupied West Bank. No reports of casualties or damage.
Yemen, Iran-backed Houthi rebels continued to take their so-called unity with the Palestinians in Gaza as Israeli.
