Deir al-Balah, Gaza (AP)-a wave of Israeli hits Gaza On Sunday he arrived at a hospital, a municipal building, a house and a vehicle, killing at least 21 people, including children, such as Israel pledged to expand his security presence To the small coastal strip.
A preED strike Al-Urt HospitalIn the city of Gaza, he was the last of the various attacks on the last major hospital offered by critical health care in northern Gaza.
The director of the hospital, Dr. Fadel Naim, said that the emergency room, the pharmacy and the surrounding buildings were seriously damaged, affecting more than 100 patients and dozens of staff. He said that in a publication in X they had been warned in advance.
A patient, a girl, died during the evacuation because staff could not provide urgent care, said the Gaza Ministry of Health.
Strikes the palm sunday
The hospital is run by the diocese of Jerusalem, who condemned the attack, saying in a statement that took place in « Palm Sunday, the beginning of Easter, the most sacred week of the Christian year ». Palm Sunday commemorates the entrance of Jesus to Jerusalem.
Israel said he hit a control and control center used by Hamas at the hospital, without providing tests. Hamas in a statement denied allegations.
The associated video Press showed the roof of the hospital surrounded by waste. The director-general of the Ministry of Health, Dr. Munir al-Boursh, said that patients had been brought outside to the beds and sleeping on the streets.
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“Nothing was left.
The Ministry of Health said that the hospital was temporarily out of service and that patients were transferred to other hospitals in the city of Gaza. The Medical Aid Group for the Palestinians called it the fifth attack on the hospital since the war.
Hospitals have special protection under international law. Israel has besieged and attacked them, sometimes, and has hit multiple, while accusing Hamas of using them as a coverage for their fighters.
Israel last month struck Nasser hospital In Khan Younis, the largest in southern Gaza, killing two people and causing a great fire, the Ministry of Health said. The installation had been overwhelmed with dead and injured When Israel ended a fire of two months last month with a surprise wave of aerial attacks.
Dead charity workers
Hours later, a strike in a car in Deir al-Balah, in the center of Gaza, killed at least seven people, including six siblings, according to Hospital Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital staff, who received the bodies. The younger brother was 10 years old.
His father, Ibrahim Abu Mahadi, said that his children worked for a charity that distributes the food to the Palestinians. « For what sin were they killed? » he said.
AP journalists saw the bloody and bloody car as relatives were crying on the bodies.
One Sunday afternoon, he hit a house in the Jabaliya Urban Refugee Camp in the north of Gaza, killing at least seven people, including two women, according to Indonesia Hospital, who received the bodies. A pregnant woman was rescued from the debris.
Another strike in Deir al-Balah collided with a municipal building Sunday afternoon and killed at least three people, according to Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital. In Khan Younis, a strike killed at least three people, according to Nasser Hospital staff.
The military of Israel said in a statement that he had reached more than 90 militant goals during the last 48 hours, including centers of command and control, tunnels and weapons. The military also said that he had intercepted a projectile fired from Gaza.
The war began when the militants led by Hamas killed 1,200 people, mostly civilians, during a attack of October 7, 2023, attacked southern Israel and took 250 people in captivity. Many were released in the cessation of fire.
Israeli authorities have pledged to pressure Hamas to release the remaining 59 hostages, 24 which are believed to live and accept the new terms of cessation of fire. Cut off all supplies in Gaza more than a month ago.
According to the Gaza Ministry of Health, more than 50,000 Palestinians have been killed in the Israeli retaliation offensive, which does not differentiate between fighters and civilians in their count, but says that more than half of the dead have been women and children.
Magdy reported from Cairo.
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