The Israeli strike destroys part of the hospital in Gaza City

An Israeli air strike was struck before dawn a hospital in North Gaza Early on Sunday, patients were forced to evacuate quickly after employees said they had received a warning just 20 minutes before the attack.

The strike struck Ahili Hospital in Gaza City. One patientThe Hamas -run Ministry of Health said.

The diocese in Jerusalem, a few health hospitals in Gaza City, is run by the diocese of Jerusalem, which condemned the attack.

In a statement, the diocese said that the twin strikes had harmed many buildings, including pharmacy and emergency departments.

“Just twenty minutes before the attack, the Israeli army ordered all patients, employees and displaced people to evacuate the hospital buildings immediately before it was bombed,” the statement said. “We thank God that there were no injuries or death as a result of the bombing.”

The diocese said that the hospital had hit five times since the beginning of the war in November 2023 – “this time on Sunday morning and the beginning of the holy week.” Palm Sunday celebrates Jesus’ entry into Jerusalem.

“We call on all governments and members of goodwill to intervene to stop all kinds of attacks on medical and humanitarian institutions,” she said. “We pray and call for the end of this horrific war and the suffering of many.”

The director of Al -Ahly Hospital, Dr. Fadil Nayem, said in a post on X that the damage to the hospital will affect more than 100 patients and dozens of medical employees.

Pictures of the ceiling of the cement in the hospital showed, surrounded by debris. Dr. Munir Al -Borsh, Director General of the Ministry of Health, called for the frightening evacuation, with people in the streets of the hospital family.

“It was very frightening for patients … We didn’t know what happened,” he said. The Ministry of Health said that the patients have been transferred since then to three other hospitals in Gaza City, including Shiva, Al -Kares, and Kuwait Field Hospital.

Israel has said it struck a center for a leadership and monitoring that Hamas used in the hospital to plan and carry out attacks against Israeli civilians and soldiers, without providing evidence. He said before the strike, steps were taken to reduce harm, including issuing warnings, use of microcity and weather control.

Hours later, a separate blow to a car was killed in Deir Al-Bala in the center of Gaza, at least seven people-six brothers and their friend-according to the employees of Al-Shuhada Al-Aqsa Hospital, who obtained the bodies.

The Israeli army also said that they targeted another center for leadership and control in the Monastery of Balla when many Hamas fighters were present and planned to attack the Israeli soldiers. This was not linked to the strike on the car in the same area, which the army said was searching.

The strikes came hours after the Minister of Defense in Israel said that military activity will expand quickly through Gaza and that people will have to evacuate “fighting areas.” On Saturday, Israel announced the completion of the Morge Corridor, as the southern city of Rafha was cut off from the rest of Gaza, where the army said that it would soon expand “strongly” in most small coastal lands.

Israel is calling for the release of Hamas 59 remaining hostages, who are believed to be alive, and accept the conditions of the proposed new ceasefire.

Within the past 24 hours, the Ministry of Health in Hamas said that 11 people have been killed and more than 100 wounded.

Medical facilities are often fire in wars, but fighters usually depict accidents such as accidental or exceptional, because hospitals have special protection under international law. In its 18 -month campaign in Gaza, Israel emerged by carrying out an open campaign against hospitals, which were besieged and raided, several times, in addition to hitting many others in strikes while accusing Hamas by using it as a cover for its fighters.

The war began after Hamas killed 1,200 people during October 7, 2023, an attack, most of them civilians, and 250 people took prisoners, some of whom were eventually released in ceasefire deals. He died at least 41 hostages in captivity.

More than 50,000 Palestinians have been killed in Gaza so far in the retaliatory attack of Israel, according to the Ministry of Health there, which do not differentiate between fighters and civilians in their census, but they say that more than half of the dead are women and children.