Israeli forces have focused Gaza’s al-Ahli Hospital with missiles, destroying the emergency unit and placing the one functioning hospital in northern Gaza out of service, in keeping with Al Jazeera correspondents.
Well being officers on the hospital evacuated sufferers, whereas a few of them, together with critically unwell sufferers, had been compelled to flee after the Israeli army issued a warning earlier than the assault.
The air strike got here “minutes after the military’s warning to evacuate this constructing of sufferers, the injured and their companions”, the Palestinian Civil Defence in Gaza mentioned in an announcement on Sunday.
“The bombing led to the destruction of the surgical procedure constructing and the oxygen technology station for the intensive care models,” it added.
Hospitals, protected beneath worldwide humanitarian regulation, have repeatedly been hit by Israeli air raids in Gaza for the reason that begin of the warfare on the enclave on October 7, 2023.
“Critically unwell sufferers, together with these within the surgical and emergency models, are actually left with out shelter or oxygen,” Al Jazeera’s Tareq Abu Azzoum, reporting from Deir el-Balah in northern Gaza, mentioned.
Razan al-Nahhas, an emergency physician presently working in central Gaza who beforehand labored at al-Ahli Hospital, mentioned not less than three individuals, together with a 12-year-old boy with a head damage, had been reported useless following the compelled evacuation.
The Israeli army mentioned the hospital was focused as a result of it was getting used as a “command and management” centre by the “terrorist group Hamas”.
In its assertion, Gaza’s Authorities Media Workplace condemned the assault as a “heinous and filthy crime”, saying Israel “intentionally destroyed and rendered out of service 34 hospitals as a part of a scientific plan to dismantle what stays of the healthcare sector within the Gaza Strip”.
In October 2023, an assault on the hospital had killed 500 individuals.
Israel has repeatedly attacked hospitals within the Palestinian enclave with impunity all through its devastating warfare.
