Following the successive Israeli bombardment of the Gaza Strip, several hospitals in Gaza City became a shelter for hundreds of people, hoping to avoid the shelling after Israel ordered all residents of the city and surrounding areas to evacuate to the southern Gaza Strip.

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Edited  by |ANNA sam

 

Humanity  section -  CJ journalist

 

Gaza Strip - October,17,2023

 

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However, the hospitals taken by civilians as a shelter have not been spared from Israel's bombing, as a spokesman for the Ministry of Health in Gaza said on Tuesday that 500 people were killed in an Israeli air strike on the Arab National Hospital in the Gaza Strip.

The ministry said in a statement that "500 people were killed by the occupation in the hospital yard" in the central Gaza Strip, noting that there are "hundreds under the rubble.

Photos from the Al-Ahli Hospital showed flames engulfing the hospital halls, glass and body parts scattered in the area.

IDF spokesman Admiral Daniel Hagari said that there are still no details about the deaths at the hospital: "we will get the details and update the public.

In the South, sustained airstrikes killed dozens of civilians and at least one senior Hamas official on Tuesday in attacks it said targeted militants.

For its part, the Government Information Office in the Gaza Strip condemned in a statement"a new war crime committed by the Israeli occupation by bombing the Al-Ahli Arab Hospital in the center of Gaza City".

"The hospital housed hundreds of sick, wounded and forcibly displaced from their homes due to the raids,"he noted.

Earlier, the media office of the Hamas government in Gaza reported that the number of children killed as a result of Israel's attacks on the Strip since October 7 has risen to 940 and women to 1032.

About 3,000 people have been killed in the Gaza Strip as a result of intensive Israeli shelling since October 7, according to a new toll published by the Ministry of Health on Tuesday.

The ministry recorded "about three thousand dead and more than 12,500 injured" in the Gaza Strip.

The World Health Organization (who) has warned for the eastern Mediterranean that the lack of basic supplies in Gaza of food, water, medicines, fuel and electricity could turn into a "real disaster" within 24 hours.