The strike on the Al-Ahli Arab Hospital in the Gaza Strip resulted in 471 deaths and 314 injuries, according to the Palestinian Ministry of Health. Currently, a representative for Israel’s foreign ministry has questioned these figures.
In particular, Lion Hayat claimed that there were tens deceased in the hospital. Israel earlier denied that one of its rockets had struck Gaza, arguing that it was an rocket from Islamic Jihad.
The day following the incident, Rushdi Abualouf, a correspondent for the BBC based in Gaza, visited the hospital and reported on the ongoing practise of people gathering body parts from the victims of the strike.
Speaking in Jerusalem with patriarchs and leaders of churches, Archbishop Hosam Naoum announced that al-Ahli Hospital had been given phone warnings to leave on Saturday, Sunday, and Monday.
Attacks on the Gaza Strip on Thursday morning killed 40 Palestinians, including a baby killed in an airstrike on the Nuseirat refugee camp in central Gaza, according to medical sources and eyewitnesses. A child was also killed in an Israeli airstrike west of Khan Younis, Palestinian medical sources said.
