Screen grab of a video shared on social media.
Gaza City, Palestinian Territories: Gaza's civil defence agency said an Israeli airstrike destroyed parts of a hospital early Sunday after Israel seized a corridor in the war-battered Palestinian territory and said it planned to expand its military offensive.
There were no reports of casualties in the strike and the Israeli military told AFP they were looking into the incident.
The civil defence agency in the area said Israel's air force targeted a building of the Al-Ahli hospital, also known as the Baptist or Ahli Arab hospital, in Gaza City after midnight.
Footage taken from another angle documents the moment last night when Al-Ahli Baptist Hospital, the last functioning medical facility in northern Gaza, was targeted by Israeli airstrikes, which destroyed both the emergency department and the reception area. pic.twitter.com/5jKCP2xlA3
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The airstrike came "minutes after the (Israeli) army's warning to evacuate this building of patients, the injured and their companions", the agency said in a statement.
"The bombing led to the destruction of the surgery building and the oxygen generation station for the intensive care units," it added.
Hospitals, protected under international humanitarian law, have repeatedly been hit by Israeli strikes in the Gaza Strip since the start of the onslaught in October 2023.
Al-Ahli hospital was heavily damaged by an explosion in its car park on October 17, 2023, leaving scores of people dead.
Hamas's press office said Sunday that Israeli forces had targeted Gaza's hospitals, including Al-Ahli, with "bombing, arson (and) destruction", or otherwise rendered them "non-operational", since the start of the war.
On March 28, the World Health Organization said 22 of Gaza's 36 hospitals were partially functional.
Gaza's health ministry said Saturday at least 1,563 Palestinians had been killed since March 18 when a ceasefire collapsed, taking the overall death toll since the war began to 50,933.
