An Israeli air attack prior to dawn hit a hospital in Northern Gaza On early Sunday, forcing patients to evacuate quickly after the staff said they had received a warning only 20 minutes before the attack.
The strike hit Al-Ahili hospital in the city of Gaza. A patientA girl, the evacuation died because the medical staff could not provide urgent care, the ministry of said Hamas.
The health center, one of the few hospitals in operation in the city of Gaza, is directed by the diocese or Jerusalem, which condemned the attack.
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In a statement, the diocese said the twin attacks damaged several buildings, including the Pharmacy and Emergencies departments.
“Just twenty minutes before the attack, the Israeli army ordered all patients, employees and displaced persons who are not imperiated from the hospital facilities before their bombing,” the statement said. “We thank God that there were no injuries or deaths such as bombing results.”
The Diocese said that the hospital has been affected five times since the beginning of the war in November 2023, “this time in the morning of Ramos Sunday and the beginning of Holy Week.” Ramos Sunday commemorates Jesus in Jerusalem.
“We call on all governments and people of good will who intervene to stop all kinds of attacks against medical and humanitarian institutions,” he said. “We pray and ask for the end of this horrible war and the suffering of so many.”
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The director of the Al-Ahli Hospital, Dr. Fadel Naim, said in an X post that hospital damage will affect more than 100 patients and medical personnel dishes.
The images of the sequelae showed the cement roof of the hospital, surrounded by rubble. Dr. Munir Al-Bours, the general director of the Ministry of Health, described the terrifying evacuation, with people carried out in the streets in hospital beds.
“It was very scary for patients … We didn’t know what happened,” he said. The Ministry of Health said that patients have been transferred to three other hospitals in Gaza City, including Shifa, Al-Quds and the Kuwait Campo Hospital.
Israel said he hit a command and control center used by Hamas in the hospital to plan and execute attacks against Israeli civilians and soldiers, without providing evidence. He said that before the strike, the steps were tasks to mitigate the damage, including the emission of warnings and the use of precise ammunition and air surveillance.
Hours later, a separate strike in a car in Deir Al-Balah in downtown Gaza, killed at least seven people and six brothers and his friend for staff at the Morue of the Al-Aqsa Martyrs hospital, who received the bodies.
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The Israeli army also said they went to another command and control center at Deir Al-Balah when many Hamas militants were present and planned to attack Israeli soldiers. This was not connected to the strike in the car in the same area, which was the army said he was investigating.
The attacks occurred hours after the Israel Minister of Defense said that military activity would expand rapidly through Gaza and that people would have to evacuate “fighting areas.” Israel also announced on Saturday the completion of the Morag corridor, cutting the southern city of Rafah of the rest of Gaza, and the army said that it would soon expand “vigorously” in most of the small coastal territory.
Israel demands that Hamas release 59 releasing hostages, or who believes that 24 are alive, and agrees to propose new terms of high fire.
In the last 24 hours, the Ministry of Health of Gaza, led by Hamas, said that 11 people died and more than 100 injured.
Get Infired In Wars medical facilities, but combatants generally represent such incidental or exceptional, since hospitals enjoy special protection under international law. In his 18 -month campaign in Gaza, Israel has stood out by carrying an open campaign in hospitals, sely them and attacking them, a few times, as well as hitting several others on strikes while accusing Hamas of using coverage for fighters.
The war begins after Hamas killed 1,200 people who revolved their attack on October 7, 2023, mostly civilians, and tok 250 captive people, some of whom were any Vally released in the Agreements of Alto El Fuego. At least 41 hostages have died in captivity.
More than 50,000 Palestinians in Gaza have been killed in the offensive of the retaliation of Israel, cordination to the Ministry of Health there, which does not differentiate between combatants and civilians in their women and chiles.