Israel’s defense forces said that the hospital contained a “Hamas used control center”.
An Israeli plane strike destroyed part of the Battista hospital in Al-Ahli, the last totally functional hospital in the city of Gaza.
Witnesses said that the attack destroyed the departments of intensive care and hospital surgery.
A video published on social networks seems to show huge flames and the smoke that rises after the missiles hit a two -story building. Several people, including some patients still in hospital beds, were shot on stage.
The defense forces of Israel (IDF) said they had attacked the hospital because it contained a “Hamas control and control center”. The attack did not leave any victims, according to the Gaza civil emergency service.
However, a child who had previously undergone a head injury died due to the “quick evacuation process”, according to a declaration of the episcopal diocese of Jerusalem, which is affiliated to the hospital.
The Ministry of Health of Gaza, administered by Hamas, said that the building was “completely destroyed”, leading to the “forced displacement of patients and hospital staff”.
Idf said he had taken measures “to mitigate damage to the civil or hospital complex, including the emission of advanced warnings in the area of ​​terrorist infrastructures, the use of accurate ammunition and air surveillance”.
A local journalist, who worked in the hospital, said that the IDF called a doctor who operated in the emergency department and asked them to immediately evacuate the hospital.
“All patients and displaced people should go out for a safety distance,” said the officer. “You only have 20 minutes to leave.”
The images on social networks showed employees and patients who left the building while it was still dark.
Dozens of Palestinians, including women and children, were also seen in the flight of a courtyard inside the hospital where they sought refuge.
Al-Ahli-a small medical center before the war was the only totally functional hospital in the city of Gaza, after the destruction of the medical complex and al-shifa hospitals in the northern part of the track.
In his statement, the government press office, led by Hamas, sentenced the attack.
Israel “is committing a horrible crime by attacking the Al-Ahli hospital, which hosts hundreds of patients and medical teams”, says the note.
In October 2023, an explosion in the same hospital killed hundreds of people.
The Palestinian authorities have blamed an Israeli attack on the explosion. Israel said that the explosion was caused by a release of rockets failed by the militant group of Islamic jihad, which denied responsibility.
The Israeli army launched a campaign to destroy Hamas in response to an unprecedented cross attack on October 7, 2023, in which about 1,200 Israelis were killed and 251 were made hostage.
More than 50,933 people have been killed in Gaza since then, according to the Ministry of Health of the territory managed by Hamas.
Of these, 1,563 were killed from March 18, when Israel restarted their offensive in the Gaza Strip, said the ministry.
Source: Terra
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