Deir Al-Bala, Gaza- A wave of Israeli strikes across Gaza on Sunday struck a hospital and other sites, killing at least 21 people, including children, and Israel pledged to expand its security presence in the small coastal strip.
The Predawn on-ahli blow in Gaza City was the latest in many attacks on the last large hospital in northern Gaza, which provides critical health care.
The director of the hospital, Dr. Vadil Nayem, said that the emergency room, pharmacy and surrounding buildings were severely damaged, which affected more than 100 patients and dozens of employees.
The Gaza Ministry of Health said that a patient died during the evacuation after an Israeli warning because the employees were unable to provide urgent care. Israel said it had hit a center for the leadership and control of Hamas in the hospital, without providing evidence. Hamas denied these allegations.
The wings of the outpatient clinics and laboratories were seen at the Arab Arab Baptist Hospital after being strike in the Israeli army late on Saturday in Gaza City, on Sunday, April 13, 2025.
The Episcopal Architectural Hospital in Jerusalem, which condemned the attack, said in a statement that occurred in “Palm Sunday, at the beginning of the holy week, the most holy week of the Christian year.”
Palm Sunday celebrates Jesus’ entry into Jerusalem, the arrival of worshipers in Gaza City in a church whose gilded walls and walls were sound in contrast to wreckage on a large scale elsewhere.
The Associated Press video showed the roof of the hospital surrounded by kkam. The Director General of the Ministry of Health, Dr. Munir Al -Borsh, said that the patients had been transported abroad in the family and slept in the streets.
“He left nothing safe inside the hospital, or throughout Gaza,” said Muhammad Abu Nasser, a injured man who sat on his outdoor bed and looked at the destruction.
The Ministry of Health said that the hospital was temporarily out of service and patients were transferred to other hospitals in Gaza City. It was described by a group of medical assistance to the Palestinians as the fifth attack on the highest since the war began.
Hospitals have special protection under international law. Israel surrounded and raided it several times, and hit several times while accusing Hamas by using it as a cover for its fighters.
The Ministry of Health said that last month Israel hit Nasser Hospital in Khan Yunis, the largest in southern Gaza, killing two people and causing a large fire. The attachment was drowned when Israel ended the ceasefire for two months last month, with a sudden wave of air strikes.
Charity workers were killed
Later on Sunday, a car was killed in the monastery of the monk in central Gaza, at least seven people, including six siblings, according to the employees at the martyrs hospital in residence, which received the bodies. He was the younger brother at the age of ten.
Their father, Ibrahim Abu Mahdi, said that his children are working in a charity that distributes food to the Palestinians. “For what sin killed?” He said.
AP correspondents saw the blood -filled car while relatives cried on the bodies. The Israel Army confirmed that it had killed the deputy head of the Hamas sniper cell.
On Sunday afternoon, an air strike struck a house in the Japanese urban refugee camp in northern Gaza, killing at least seven people, including two women, according to Indonesian Hospital.
A pregnant woman was saved from the rubble. Alaa Monan has later cried after her younger daughter has learned that she died with her husband and mother. Two other daughters, between the ages of 4 and 7, were injured.
Monanon had a broken ankle, but he looked well, according to the doctor. No examination was available, as the only device in northern Gaza was in Al -Ahly Hospital, it was now damaged.
One of the neighbors Abdullah Dardona said: “We do not know who is the body of this is that.” “There is no resistance, there is no division, no enthusiasm, no one is here. It is only civilians here.”
Another blow in Deir Al -Bala hit a municipal building and killed at least three people, according to Al -Qaeda Hospital. In Khan Yunis, at least three people were killed, according to employees at Nasser Hospital.
The Israeli army said in a statement that it hit more than 90 militant targets over the past 48 hours, including command, control, tunnels and weapons centers. The army also said it had intercepted a shell fired from Gaza.
The war began when militants led by Hamas killed 1,200 people, most of them civilians, during October 7, 2023, an attack on southern Israel and took 250 people prisoners. Much was eventually released in the ceasefire deals.
The Israeli authorities pledged to pressure Hamas to launch the 59 hostages, 24 believed to be alive, and to accept the conditions for the new ceasefire. All supplies were cut to Gaza for more than a month.
More than 50,000 Palestinians were killed in the retaliation of Israel, according to the Ministry of Health in Gaza, which did not differentiate between fighters and civilians in its number, but they say that more than half of the dead were women and children.
The missile was reported from Yemen
The Israeli army said that a missile was launched from Yemen on Sunday afternoon and the details were under the review. The sirens seemed to be in several parts of Israel and the occupied West Bank. There were no reports on losses or damage.
The Iranian -backed Houthi rebels continue to target Israel in what it called solidarity with the Palestinians in Gaza.
Copyright © 2025 by Associated Press. All rights reserved.