Hundreds of people are reported to have been killed in a massive explosion at a crowded hospital in Gaza City, in the biggest single loss of life in the blockaded territory in all the five wars between Hamas and, said at least 500 people were killed on Tuesday night in what it said was an Israeli airstrike on al-Ahli al-Arabi, also known as the Baptist hospital. A spokesperson for the Gaza civil defence put the number of killed at about 300.
Footage broadcast from the ground by Al Jazeera showed a huge fire engulfing the multi-storey building, with bodies, streaks of blood and widespread debris scattered around. “Nothing justifies this shocking attack on a hospital and its many patients and health workers, as well as the people who sought shelter there. Hospitals are not a target. This bloodshed must stop. Enough is enough.”
Dr Ziad Shehadah told Al Jazeera: “What’s happened is terrible because those people, all of them, are civilians. They fled their homes and reached a place that they believed was safe – a hospital, which according to international law, is a safe place. Canon Richard Sewell, the dean of the Anglican-run St George’s College in Jerusalem, said: “Disaster: our hospital, Ahli Arab hospital, has taken a direct hit from an Israeli missile. Early reports say hundreds of women and children killed.
Hamas, which sparked the latest war with an attack last week that killed more than 1,400 Israelis, called Tuesday’s hospital strike “a horrific massacre”. It said in a statement that most of the casualties were displaced families, patients, children and women.
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