Israel bombed the hospital Al Ahli, also known as the Baptist Hospital, in the city of Gaza.
The attack left the most important health center in the north of the strip out of service. Israeli bombs caused severe damage to the installation and forced patients and personnel to evacuate, reported The agency EFE.
The bombing, which was notified 15 minutes before by the Israel Army, destroyed the entrance building and caused a fire that affected the emergency area, the laboratory and the pharmacy, detailed the medium.
Although so far no direct deaths are reported, a child died during evacuation, when taken without oxygen by his family amid the hasty departure from the hospital.
As in attacks prior to medical facilities, the Israel army states that the Hamas group maintained a basis of operations in the hospital, but has not shown any proof of this.
In addition, Tel Aviv excused this new violation of protected buildings in case of conflict over international humanitarian law, with the argument that he took measures to mitigate civil damage, such as the warning and use of precision ammunition and aerial surveillance.
For its part, the Ministry of Health of the Enclave, controlled by Hamas, condemned the attack and requested the international community that intervenes and stops “the constant violations against the Gaza Strip, especially patients and the health sector.”
The hospital Al Ahli is the number 35 medical center that Israel attacks since the beginning of the war in October 2023, which aggravates the health emergency suffered by the Gazatí population.
The bombing occurred hours after the Israeli Minister of Defense, Israel Katz, announced that the Army took and attached the so -called Safety Zone of Israel The southern area of Rafah, a area that in total occupies more than 20 % of the Gaza Strip.
“The army has completed the taking of the Morag axis, which crosses Gaza between (the southern areas of) Rafah and Jan Yunis, and has incorporated the entire area between Morag and the Philadelphia corridor (border with Egypt) to the Israeli security zone,” Katz said in a statement Referenced by EFE.
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That area was populated by more than 200 thousand Palestinians before the start of the war. Today that population has been reduced to a couple of hundreds after forced displacement and generalized destruction caused by the Zionist offensive.
The Israeli minister also assured that “the activity of the army will soon expand with other locations in most of Gaza and (the population) will have to evacuate the combat areas.”
