Al Jazeera :
Israeli forces have bombed al-Ahli Arab Hospital in Gaza City, the largest remaining functioning hospital in northern Gaza.
Critically ill patients were left on the street after fleeing the attack in the early hours of Sunday morning.
According to the Reuters news agency, the hospital staff began evacuating patients from the building after a man said he received a call from someone identifying himself with Israeli security, shortly before the attack.
Authorities in Gaza have condemned the bombing, noting that al-Ahli Hospital was treating hundreds of patients when it was hit by at least two missiles.
In a statement, the Diocese of Jerusalem said the twin strikes had demolished the hospital’s two-storey Genetic Laboratory and damaged the Pharmacy and the Emergency Department buildings. The attack also resulted in other collateral damage to the surrounding buildings, including the church building of St. Philip’s, it added.
“The Diocese of Jerusalem is appalled at the bombing of the hospital now for the fifth time since the beginning of the war in 2023 – and this time on the morning of Palm Sunday and the beginning of Holy Week,” the statement said.
In October 2023, Palestinian health officials said nearly 500 people had been killed in an Israeli air attack on the al-Ahli Hospital. Israel attributed the explosion at the facility to a misfired rocket launched by the Palestinian Islamic Jihad, an allegation denied by the armed group.
