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Gaza’s hospital for cancer care destroyed
The Turkish-Palestinian Friendship Hospital for cancer patients has been destroyed by the Israeli military as part of its attack on the Gaza Strip.
The hospital, located in the Netzarim Corridor close to Salah al-Din Street, was being used as a command centre by Israeli forces during their previous military assault in central and northern Gaza.
Today it was blown up completely after having been rebuilt with a Turkish donation of $34m in 2017.
The facility used to provide cancer treatment to 10,000 patients annually.
This comes after Israel said it was expanding the Netzarim Corridor and blocked all movement on Salah al-Din Street. People wanting to travel between the north and the south of Gaza must use al-Rashid Street, which is becoming more and more dangerous because of Israeli attacks.
MSF says 10th staff member killed in Gaza’s Deir el-Balah
Doctors Without Borders, known by its French acronym MSF, has issued a statement saying it’s mourning its 10th staff member killed since Israel’s war started in Gaza.
“MSF is shocked and saddened by the killing of our colleague Alaa Abd-Elsalam Ali Okal by an Israeli air strike on his apartment building in Deir el-Balah, central Gaza,” it said. “Along with hundreds of others across the Gaza Strip, Alaa Abd-Elsalam Ali Okal was killed in the early morning of 18 March following the resumption of Israeli attacks.”
The 29-year-old was a laundry worker with the organisation and “played an important role in supporting people in need of medical care at MSF’s field hospital in Deir el-Balah”. “We condemn the killing of our colleague and call yet again for the respect and protection of civilians.”
Hospital, university hit in Israeli air raids across Gaza
Our correspondents are reporting several Israeli attacks since the morning across Gaza:
- Five Palestinians were killed and others injured in an Israeli air strike on the Tuffah neighbourhood in the eastern part of Gaza City. The victims were taken to al-Ahli Hospital.
- Two Palestinians were killed and others wounded in an Israeli attack that targeted a home in Abasan, east of Khan Younis.
- The Turkish-Palestinian Friendship Hospital in central Gaza, the only cancer facility in Gaza, was hit and destroyed by the Israeli military.
- The medical faculty of the Islamic University in Gaza City was also attacked in an air raid.
Israeli army issues ‘final warning’ to northern Gaza residents, carries out more strikes
The army’s Arabic language spokesperson Avichay Adraee says on X that the residents of the “al-Salateen, al-Karama and al-Awda” areas along northern Gaza’s Mediterranean coast must leave their homes immediately.
“This is a final and prior warning before the airstrike!” Adraee wrote, claiming the area is being used by Hamas for rocket launches at Israeli territory.
Meanwhile, our colleagues at Al Jazeera Arabic reported that the Israeli army has bombed a house in Beit Lahiya, also in the northern Gaza Strip. In addition, two Palestinians were wounded by an Israeli drone strike on the Tal as-Sultan area of Rafah, in Gaza’s south.
Harrowing video shows bombing of residential area in Jabalia
Palestinian activists have shared the footage of the moment when Israeli forces struck a residential block in Jabalia refugee camp, in northern Gaza. The footage shows the moment of the explosion with flames and smoke rising after the bombing.
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