LIVE: Israel bombs Gaza City hospital, orders people in Nuseirat to flee
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Date: 9m ago (00:15 GMT)
Title: Gaza authorities condemn Israeli attack on al-Ahli Hospital
Content: The Government Media Office in Gaza has slammed the bombing of the hospital in Gaza City, which is also known as the Baptist Hospital, calling it a 'heinous' and 'terrible' crime.
In a statement, the office called the al-Ahli Hospital 'one of the oldest and most important health institutions' in Gaza.
'The Baptist Hospital, which includes many specialized departments, had hundreds of patients and wounded, medical staff and escorts at the moment of targeting, and provides health services to more than a million Palestinians in the governorates of Gaza and northern Gaza,' it said.
Israeli forces have already 'deliberately destroyed 34 hospitals' in Gaza, the office said, adding that the continued attacks on medical facilities are a 'flagrant violation of all international charters and the Geneva Conventions prohibiting the targeting of medical facilities'.
Update:
Date: 17m ago (00:07 GMT)
Title: Israeli forces attack hospital in Gaza City
Content: Our colleagues at Al Jazeera Arabic are reporting that Israeli forces have bombed the al-Ahli Arab Hospital in Gaza City as patients were being evacuated.
Two airstrikes destroyed the hospital's emergency unit, the main entrance and the facility holding medical oxygen for intensive care patients.
Doctors and nurses have been scrambling to get hundreds of patients out of the facility in the middle of the night.
We'll bring you more soon.
Urgent | The Israeli occupation army threatens to bomb the Baptist Hospital in central Gaza City and demands its immediate evacuation. pic.twitter.com/a2VL9L3WoA
— أنس الشريف Anas Al-Sharif (@AnasAlSharif0) April 12, 2025
Update:
Date: 21m ago (00:03 GMT)
Title: A recap of recent developments
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Update:
Date: 24m ago (00:00 GMT)
Title: Welcome to our live coverage
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