Israeli missiles hit Gaza Hospital shortly after warning against evacuation

The paramedics in Israel said that the Israeli missiles hit a building inside a major hospital in Gaza on Sunday, which led to the destruction of the emergency and reception department and the damage of other structures.

Health officials at the Arab Baptist Hospital in Gaza City evacuated patients from the building after a phone call from a person who knew himself as Israeli security shortly before the pre -dawn attack.

No victims have been reported in the strike. The Israeli army said in a statement that it had taken steps to reduce harm to civilians before the synagogue hit, which the army said was used by Hamas militants to plan the attacks.

The hospital – an Anglican Church Foundation and a major medical facility – was directed by the operation, according to the Ministry of Health in Gaza.

Overnight evacuation

“It was necessary to evacuate hundreds of patients and injured people in the middle of the night, and many of them are now in the streets without medical care, which endangers their lives.”

Sunday strikes came when Hamas leaders began a new round of talks in Cairo, in an attempt to save the ceasefire agreement with Israel, as Egypt, Qatar and the United States intensified efforts to bridge the gaps between the two sides.

The photos on social media, which Reuters could not verify immediately, showed dozens of people leaving the building, with some patients who help the hospital beds.

Reuters shots showed great destruction in the hospital complex church and outside, and patients who were unable to leave.

An attack “all night”, says the injured man

“The scene was scary, from night until now, I have not slept for a minute of fear. Throughout the night, the glass was shattered on us inside.”

The Baptist Church in Jerusalem said that the warning against the evacuation of the hospital came 20 minutes before the strike that destroyed the two -storey genetic laboratory, and caused damage to the buildings of the Pharmacy and Emergency Department and other surrounding structures.

“We call on all governments and goodwill people to intervene to stop all kinds of attacks on medical and humanitarian institutions,” the church said in a statement.

The Palestinian Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Hamas condemned the attack on the Supreme, and said in a statement that Israel was destroying the health care system in Gaza.

Israel says Hamas systematically exploits civil structures, including hospitals, denied by the armed group. The Israeli forces carried out several raids in the medical facilities in the pocket.

A previous explosion in the car park in the hospital

In October 2023, a fatal explosion In a car park in Al -Ahly Hospital complex, Hamas was blamed in an Israeli air strike. Israel said that the launch of a failed missile by the Palestinian Islamic Jihad Group had caused an explosion.

The armed group denied that it was responsible. The investigation conducted by Human Rights Watch concluded that the explosion was likely to be the cause of a failed Palestinian missile.

Separate strikes in the pocket were killed on Sunday at least 14 Palestinians, including the head of a police station in Khan Yunis, in the southern part of the Hamas pocket run by Hamas, according to Hamas and the health authorities. Al -Masoun said that six brothers were killed when an Israeli strike hit their car in Deir Al -Bala in the Gaza Strip in the central Gaza.

The war arose in Gaza through the Hamas attack led by October 7, 2023 in southern Israel, where 1,200 people were killed and 251 were taken, according to the Israeli return.

Since then, more than 50,000 Palestinians have been killed in the Israeli attack, according to local health authorities. Many Gaza are in ruin, and most of its residents were displaced.