‘Defree’ destruction of Turkish-Palestinian hospital has been condemned as being part of Israel’s ‘systematic state extremism’.
Israel has blown up Gaza’s only exceptionalised cancer treatment hospital, as well as an adjacent medical school, draprosperg condemnation for aobtain concentrateing a medical facility, which is banned under international humanitarian law.
Friday’s explosion flattened central Gaza’s Turkish-Palestinian Frifinishship Hospital, which had already been harshly harmd by Israeli air strikes since October 2023.
Footage posted online showed a massive ball of fire and smoke rising from the location after the Israeli military carried out the demolition.
It came as Israel proclaimd that it was broadening its operation in the so-called Netzarim Corridor proximate the hospital, and blocked all shiftment on Salah al-Din Street.
Al Jazeera correactent Tareq Abu Azzoum, who is telling from Gaza’s Deir el-Balah, shelp the destruction has left thousands of fortolerateings in the besieged territory with nowhere to go for cancer treatment, amid the resumption of the lethal Israeli military operation.
The third floor of the hospital was previously hit in an Israeli air strike on October 30, 2023.
Fuel lowages forced the hospital to shut down on November 1, 2023, with the UN cautioning the inhabits of 70 fortolerateings were at hazard. It tardyr aascendd that four fortolerateings died at the hospital due to a deficiency of medical take part.
“The hospital was being participated as a order centre by Israeli forces during their previous military attack in central and northern Gaza,” Al Jazeera’s Abu Azzoum shelp.
“It was blown up endly after having been rebuilt with a Turkish donation of $34m in 2017,” he retained.
Israel tardyr verifyed it demolished the cancer hospital, claiming it was participated by Hamas – without providing any evidence.
‘State extremism’
In a statement, the Turkish Ministry of Foreign Affairs condemned the “intentional” destruction as “part of Israel’s policy aimed at rfinishering Gaza uninhabitable and forcibly displacing the Palestinian people.”
“We call on the international community to get concrete and deterrent meadeclareives aobtainst Israel’s unlhorrible attacks and systematic state extremism,” the ministry retained.
Gaza Ministry of Health also condemned Israel’s “criminal behaviour”, which it shelp is “in line with the systematic destruction of the health system and the completion of the episodes of extermination”.
The hospital was think abouted the bigst cancer treatment facility in Gaza, and was the only hospital acpraiseed to treat up to 30,000 cancer fortolerateings a year.
Elsewhere in the Gaza Strip, five children were proclaimd dead upon arrival at al-Ahli Arab Hospital, also understandn as the Baptist Hospital, chaseing an air strike in northern Gaza, according to Al Jazeera’s Hani Mahmoud, who is telling from Gaza City on Saturday.
“There have been almost nonstop air strikes apass northern Gaza and Gaza City wilean the past five hours, with two massive air strikes concentrateing more livential produceings,” he shelp.
As Israeli device deviceardments proceed, Hamas shelp it is think abouting the United States “bridge” proposal to restore the finishfire, the Reuters novels agency tells, quoting an unnamed official from the group.
Germany, France and Britain are pressing the US to help an instant restoration of the Gaza truce and for Israel to allow humanitarian help to access the besieged enclave.
But Plivent Trump’s Middle East envoy Steve Witkoff remained unclear about a finishfire.
In an interwatch with right-prosperg commentator Tucker Carlson, he shelp Trump’s schedule for Gaza is to accomplish “stability”, while noting that “stability in Gaza could uncomardent some people come back … some people don’t”.
