Illustrative image. (The Israeli Defense Forces)
Israeli strikes hit al-Ahli Arab Baptist Hospital in the northern Gaza Strip on April 13, destroying the emergency and reception department and damaging other structures.
Patients were evacuated from the targeted building after one of the workers there received a call from someone who identified himself with the Israeli security shortly before the strikes took place. Despite the heavy damage, no casualties were reported as a result of the strikes.
The Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) claimed in a statement later that the strikes targeted a command center of the Hamas Movement within the hospital.
“The IDF and Shin Bet attacked a command and control complex in the northern Gaza Strip inside the Al-Ahli hospital that was used by the Hamas terrorist organization,” the military said.
“The complex was used by the terrorists to plan and execute terrorist attacks against IDF forces and citizens of the State of Israel,” it added
The military also said that prior to the strikes, it took steps to reduce civilian casualties, including providing early warning in the area, using precision weapons, and aerial surveillance.
“The Hamas terrorist organization systematically violates international law, while brutally exploiting civilian buildings and the civilian population as human shields for terrorist operations,” the military added, calling on the terror group to cease using medical facilities as cover.
Footage of the Israeli strikes on the hospital were aired live by Al Jazeera and recorded by Palestinian activists in northern Gaza.
The Palestinian foreign ministry and Hamas both condemned the attack at Al-Ahli, and said in a statement that Israel was destroying the healthcare system in Gaza.
The hospital, which is located in Gaza City and run by the Anglican Church, was a major medical facility in Gaza City, according to the Hamas-run health ministry.
“Hundreds of patients and injured people had to be evacuated in the middle of the night, and many of them are now out in the streets without medical care, which puts their lives at risk,” Khalil Al-Deqran, the ministry’s spokesperson, told Reuters.
This was not the first hospital to be targeted since Israel resumed its operations in Gaza on March 18, shattering a ceasefire and prisoner exchange agreement that was brokered by the United States, Egypt and Qatar last January. On March 23, the IDF killed Ismail Barhoum, a senior member of Hamas’s political bureau, in a strike on Nasser Hospital in southern Gaza. The strike also claimed the life of a 16-year-old boy who had recently undergone surgery.
More than 1,500 Palestinains, including women and children, have been killed since the IDF resumed operations in Gaza. The latest deaths brought the total toll in the Strip from the Israeli war which broke out after the October 7 Hamas-led surprise attack of 2023 close to 51,000.
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i will never forgive the west for covering up the genocide of palestinians – bombing a hospital ?? only those worshiping the devil could forgive that.
a long time ago, jews in the area worshipped moloch, a caananite diety that encouraged ritualistic child sacrifice. you could argue jews never abandoned these barbaric practices, judging by their imbreeding and oral traditions
oral traditions and practices also, in the ‘ mullato ghay bars’ 😃😃😃
nice to know that taxpayers money is being well spent. much better than squandering it on the health service or old age pensioners. makes you proud to be british.
its what the jews do best. kill women and children then cower behind eternal victimhood
all of the world leaders don’t care because they are all controlled by the same luciferian dogs. israhell could wipe out every inch and every soul in palestine with the help of the u.s. zog and no one would give a shit.
the most tragic thing about zionism, is that, even if they completely wiped out palestinians today, tomorrow they will be just as miserable and stupid as today.
u are inferior miserable bitter burgercunt envious of joyous jews not crushed by your sick puritanism
you’re imitation of the talented resident comic artistes is semantically flat and even downright pissweak.
go back to your usual sub standard trolling.
no prediction needed, that’s what’s happening.
another day, another joo atrocity. just shlomo being shlomo. every country in the world should tool up with nukes like n. korea for its own security.
dumb burgercunt must scrub superior jew toilet
i don’t know who is more disgusting, the jews for carrying out these bombings, or the american government who backs them. or the american voters who elect politicians who give them the planes, bombs and all that stuff.
i voted for de la cruz for president. she wanted to cut
military aid to israel and ukraine. too bad she didn’t get too many votes this time.
burgercunt disgusting jew superior
yet another nail in the jewish coffin. still a few missing but the jews are anxious to arrange an early death of the jewry. can’t wait for that to happen!
maybe the feelings go both ways?
you fucking people deserve each other.
newton’s 3rd law of motion abbreviated ‘ for every action there is an equal and opposite reaction’. they haven’t been kicked out of 108 different countries over the ages due to chronic body odour. max blumenthal, aaron maté, norm finkelstein and the other minority with a moral conscience have a close to near impossible task in giving the rest of this crowd any semblance of moral credibility.
obvious u burgercunts inferior to jews
obviously you missed a lot of hillbilly class lectures by peaceliktok and the others on how to post a good laugh.
stupid, silly hook nose 🐽
i wonder if the idf noticed a command center of the hamas movement in or on dealy plaza on november 22, 1963. such is their attitude.
i get your point with the lying deflection of this murderous crowd and as far as dealy plaza in nov. ’63, the assassin’s shots apparently originated from the dal-tex building in front of the motorcade, not behind from the library repository. “a sayanim sanctuary controlled by the dallas wealthy zionist community” as described by a commentator on one unz review article on jfk’s assassination
we hide inhospital cuz we scared mentally ill