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SvennoJ on 12 April 2025
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Main events on April 12th

  • Israeli forces continue bombing Gaza after killing at least 20 people in attacks across the Strip on Saturday.
  • The Israeli military says it has completed the so-called Morag Corridor, which cuts off the southern city of Rafah from the rest of Gaza and Egypt.
  • It has also issued new forced evacuation orders for residents of the largest refugee camp in central Gaza, Nuseirat, in the middle of the night.
  • Earlier, the military also issued forced evacuation orders for people in southern Khan Younis, warning of imminent attacks “with great force”, after Hamas launched three rockets towards Israel.
  • A Hamas negotiating team, led by senior official Khalil al-Hayya, has arrived in Cairo for truce talks with Egyptian and Qatari mediators.
  • The Qassam Brigades, the armed wing of Hamas, has released a video showing captured Israeli-American soldier Edan Alexander, who criticised the government of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu for failing to secure his release.

Israeli forces attack hospital in Gaza City

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. They say two airstrikes destroyed the hospital’s emergency unit, the main entrance and the facility holding medical oxygen for intensive care patients.

The attack came as doctors and nurses have been scrambling to get hundreds of patients out of the facility in the middle of the night.

Critically ill patients on the streets after Israeli attack on al-Ahli Hospital

The Israeli military has targeted the al-Ahli Arab Hospital in Gaza City multiple times, hitting the main entrance, the emergency unit, the surgical operation building and the medical oxygen plant.

We understand that dozens of wounded and sick people have been evacuated from the hospital and are now lying in the streets surrounding the hospital with no shelter or medical care.

Critically ill patients, including those in the surgical and emergency units, are now left without shelter or oxygen. Some, in fact, may die, not just from the attack itself, but from the loss, now, of this medical care.

We see that hundreds of patients, doctors and displaced families who were sheltering in the hospital itself now have been forced to flee, likely with nowhere to go.