Citing Gaza Civil Defense,\u00a0Middle East Eye<\/em><\/a>\u00a0reports that the bombs resulted in \u201cthe\u00a0destruction of the surgery building and the oxygen generation station for the intensive care units.\u201d<\/strong>\u00a0St. Philip’s Church was one of multiple nearby buildings that also suffered damage.\u00a0The IDF attributed the low casualty count to its effort to “mitigate harm to civilians<\/strong>\u00a0or to the hospital compound, including issuing advanced warnings in the area of the terror infrastructure, the use of precise munitions, and aerial surveillance.”<\/p>\n A local journalist told\u00a0BBC<\/em><\/a>\u00a0that the IDF called an emergency room doctor and urged the hospital’s immediate evacuation, saying “You have only 20 minutes to leave.”\u00a0A previously-injured Khalil Bakr said he and his three wounded daughters —\u00a0two amputees and a third “full of platinum plates”<\/strong>\u00a0— managed to get out of the hospital just a couple minutes before destruction rained down.<\/p>\n “For the only Christian hospital in Gaza to be attacked on Palm Sunday is especially appalling,”<\/strong>\u00a0said British Archbishop of York Stephen Cottrell in a statement. “I share in the grief of our Palestinian brothers and sisters in the Diocese of Jerusalem. I pray for the staff and patients of the hospital, and for the family of the boy who tragically died during the evacuation.”<\/p>\n The British government joined the condemnation, with Foreign Minister David Lammy saying the\u00a0“deplorable attacks must end…Israel’s attacks on medical facilities have comprehensively degraded access to healthcare<\/strong>\u00a0in Gaza.” Before the attack, the hospital stood alone as the only one still fully functioning in Gaza City, after Israel blew up the Al-Shifa Hospital and others.<\/p>\n The\u00a0Orthodox Patriarchate of Jerusalem<\/a>\u00a0issued its own statement:<\/p>\n \u201cThis hospital, already strained by months of siege, stood as one of the last beacons of medical hope in Gaza, where dozens of healthcare institutions have been systematically destroyed.\u00a0The stripping away of such sanctuaries of life and dignity is a tragedy that transcends all boundaries of politics and enters the realm of the sacred.<\/strong>\u201d<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n While the British government and many other entities have decried the attack, there’s been\u00a0no official statement from the Israel-catering Trump administration<\/strong>.<\/p>\n Previous IDF claims of hospitals being used as Hamas facilities have grown\u00a0suspect<\/a>\u00a0under scrutiny<\/strong>, with credible accusations of\u00a0the IDF staging evidence<\/a>\u00a0before ushering in journalists to see the “proof.” Throughout the war that’s raged since the Oct 7 Hamas invasion of southern Israel, the IDF has repeatedly bombed medical facilities and fired on ambulances.<\/p>\n One of the most troubling such incidents came last month, when\u00a014 medical and other aid workers were found in a mass grave in Gaza after the IDF destroyed a convoy of ambulances and other first-response vehicles<\/strong>. The IDF originally claimed the vehicles “were identified advancing suspiciously” without either their headlights or emergency lights on. Then cell phone\u00a0video of the IDF attack<\/a>\u00a0captured by one of the slain ambulance crew members\u00a0proved<\/a>\u00a0the IDF account was completely false<\/strong>. The vehicles’ headlights and emergency lights were on, and the vehicles carried clear markings of their nature.<\/p>\n As withering IDF gunfire rakes over the first responders, the dying Palestinian video narrator can be heard reciting the Shahada, the Muslim declaration of faith: “There is no God but God, Muhammad is his messenger.” Then, perhaps anticipating the video may be recovered after his murder by Israeli soldiers, he said,\u00a0\u201cForgive me, mother. This is the path I chose — to help people. God is Great.”<\/strong><\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/assets.zerohedge.com\/s3fs-public\/inline-images\/Goaix9xWYAEAlRY.jpg?itok=xbgFbZ_C\")
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