Correspondent of Gaza
Pictures of gettyHamas has stated that an Israeli strike has destroyed intensive care and surgery departments in the main medical installation in the city of Gaza.
The video posted online seemed to show huge flames and smoke that were lifted from Al-Ahli Baptist Hospital after the missiles reached a two-storey building. People, including some patients who were still in hospital beds, were shot from the site.
A local journalist said that Israel’s Defense forces (IDF) had called a doctor and received an evacuation warning.
Hamas called the « horrible crime » of Israel, who has said he is studying the reports.
No victims have been notified according to civilian emergency service.
The local journalist, who worked at the hospital, said that an Israeli army officer called a doctor operating in the emergency service and asked them to immediately evacuate the hospital.
« All patients and displaced people must go out at a safe distance, » said the officer.
« You only have 20 minutes to leave. »
The pictures on social media showed the staff and patients who left the building while still dark outside.
Dozens of Palestinians, including women and children, also escaped from a courtyard inside the hospital where they had been looking for refuge.
Al -Ahli – a small medical center before the war is now the only hospital that still works in the city of Gaza after the destruction of Al-Shifa Medical Complex and hospitals in the northern part of the strip.
In his statement, the Hamas Government’s media office condemned the attack.
Israel « is committing a horrible crime by going to the Al-Ahli Hospital, which houses hundreds of patients and medical staff, » he said.
In October 2023, an attack on the same hospital killed hundreds of people.
Palestinian officials blamed an Israeli strike for the explosion. Israel said that the explosion was caused by a rocket launch failed by the Palestinian Islamic Jihad militant group, which denied responsibility.
The Israeli military launched a campaign to destroy Hamas in response to an unprecedented cross -border attack on October 7, 2023, which died about 1,200 Israelis and 251 were hostages.
At that time, more than 50,933 people have been killed in Gaza, according to the Hamas-Run Ministry of Health in the territory.
Of these, 1,563 have been killed since March 18, when Israel restarted their offensive in the Gaza Strip, the ministry said, the ministry said.
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