The Israeli military struck and destroyed part of a northern Gaza hospital early on Sunday morning, shortly after telling patients and staff to evacuate the site. The attack took place hours after the Israeli government announced that its troops fought elsewhere in the territory had expanded its occupation of the southern band of Gaza, cutting off the links between two strategically located Palestinian cities.
No one was killed in the Arab Hospital Ahli attack, but a child who was treated by a head injury died due to the precipitated evacuation, according to a statement published by the Anglican Church of Jerusalem, which oversaw the medical center. The strike destroyed a laboratory and damaged a pharmacy, emergency service and a church of the Zeitoun hospital compost, added the statement.
The hospital had become one of the last states of the healthcare system in Gaza, where they have been medical centers often damaged and harassed During the war that began with the October Hamas attack in October 2023 in Israel. The World Health Organization informed Last month, 33 of the 36 Gaza hospitals had been damaged during the war, and only 21 remained functional. What too warned On Saturday, Gaza Hospitals are facing a shortage of medicines because Israel has blocked help delivery for six weeks.
Arab Arab Arab Hospital compound was first hit by less than two weeks after the war, when a missile pound A parking lot at the place where dozens of displaced families welcomed. Hamas accused The strike in Israel, before Israel said it was caused by a wandering rocket fired by the Palestinian Islamic jihad, an allied group with Hamas. United States intelligence officials after he said They had « high confidence » in the Israeli account.
The Israeli military recognized Sunday’s responsibility for the last strike at the hospital, saying that without tests that the site had housed a Hamas command center. Both the military and the Anglican Church said that Israeli soldiers had called the hospital to order their evacuation before the strike. Neither the hospital authorities nor Hamas answered questions about whether the hospital had been used by Hamas fighters.
In a separate development, the Israeli Defense Minister announced on Saturday the capture of a strategic way of the east-west in southern Gaza. This links between Rafah and Khan Younis, the two large cities in southern Gaza and expands the occupation of Israel at the side of the enclave.
Israel calls on the « Morag » runner, after a Jewish settlement in the area that dissolved when Israeli troops evacuated Gaza in 2005.
The Minister of Defense, Israel Katz, said that Israel had placed the entire region between the corridor and the Gaza-Egyt border, an area of about 25 square kilometers, within the « Israeli security zone ». The military said that he had surrounded the city of Rafah, but he still did not have to establish the operational control of all the neighborhoods.
Before breaking the cessation of fire with Hamas in March, Israeli troops controlled only one slender land south of Gaza along the borders of the territory with Egypt and Israel. But they began to expand their control At the beginning of April In what Israeli leaders said it was a commitment to pressing Hamas to release approximately 60 hostages, some who believe dead, still remained in the enclave.
Amera Harouuda Doha reports, Qatar.
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