Two Israeli missiles struck a building on Sunday in a main hospital in Gaza, destroying the emergency and reception department and damaging other structures, said Medics, in an Israeli strike said that it was against Hamas fighters that operated the installation.
Health officials at the Baptist Hospital Arab al-Ahli in the city of Gaza evacuated patients in the building after a phone call from someone who was identified as Israeli security shortly before the pre-alba attack.
Victims were not reported on the strike. The Israeli military said in a statement that he had taken steps to reduce damage to civilians before he struck the compound, which the military said that Hamas militants were used to plan attacks.
The hospital, an Anglican Church institution and an important medical installation, was eliminated out of operation, according to the Gaza Ministry of Health.
Evacuation during the night
« Hundreds of patients and injuries had to be evacuated midnight, and many of them are on the street without medical care, which puts their lives at risk, » said Ministry spokesman Khalil al-Deqran.
Sunday’s strikes occurred when Hamas leaders started a new round of talks in Cairo, with the aim of rescuing a cessation agreement with Israel, as Egypt, Qatar and the United States have increased their efforts to solve the lagoons between the sides.
The images traveling on social media, which Reuters could not verify immediately, showed dozens of people coming out of the premises, with some patients helping hospital beds.
Reuters’ images showed significant destruction to the church of the hospital compost and out and patients who could not leave.
The attack lasted « all night », says the injured man
« The scene was scary, from the night until now, I did not sleep a single minute out of fear. All night, the glass broke us inside, » said a wounded man, Mohammed Abu Nasser.
The Baptist Church of Jerusalem said that the warning to evacuate the hospital arrived 20 minutes before the strike that destroyed the two -story genetic laboratory and damaged the buildings of the pharmacy and the emergency service and other surrounding structures.
« We call on all governments and people of goodwill to intervene to stop all kinds of attacks on medical and humanitarian institutions, » the Church said in a statement.
The Palestinian Foreign Ministry and Hamas condemned the Al-Ahli attack, and said in a statement that Israel was destroying the Gaza health system.
Israel says that Hamas systematically exploits civilian structures, including hospitals, that the militant group denies. The Israeli forces have made numerous raids on the medical facilities of the enclave.
Blast before the hospital car park
In October 2023, a deadly explosion In a parking lot at the Al-Ahli Hospital compost he was guilty of Hamas in an Israeli air attack. Israel said that a failed rocket launch of the Palestinian Islamic Jihad group had caused the explosion.
The militant group denied that he was responsible. An investigation by Human Rights Watch concluded that the explosion was probably caused by a failed release of Palestinian rockets.
The strikes separated from the Sunday enclave killed at least 30 Palestinians, including the head of a Khan Younis police station, in the southern part of the Hamas running enclave, according to Hamas and the health authorities. Six brothers were killed when an Israeli strike struck his car in Deir al-Balah in the central strip of Gaza, according to Medics.
The war in Gaza was triggered by the Hamas October 7 attack, on October 7, 2023, in southern Israel, in which 1,200 people died and 251 took hostage, according to Israeli high.
Since then, more than 50,000 Palestinians have been killed in the Israeli offensive, according to local health authorities. Much of Gaza is in ruins and most of its population has been displaced.
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