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Israel Bombs Last Functioning Hospital in Northern Gaza

HeadlineApr 14, 2025

Israel has bombed the last functioning hospital in the northern Gaza Strip, killing a child who asphyxiated from a lack of oxygen and leaving sick and wounded Palestinians on the street with nowhere to go for treatment. The assault on the Al-Ahli Arab Hospital in Gaza City came during a weekend of relentless artillery and missile attacks that killed and injured scores of Palestinians. Overnight, an Israeli airstrike killed an entire family of 10 in Khan Younis, including children as young as 3 years old. In Deir al-Balah, mourners gathered on Sunday to honor six brothers killed when an Israeli strike hit their car. Their father, Zaki Abu Mahadi, said his sons were delivering food and water to Palestinians left hungry by Israel’s total siege of Gaza, which is now in its seventh week.

Zaki Abu Mahadi: “After the war began, they started volunteering to prepare meals for people in need. They don’t carry weapons. They’re not resistance fighters. They are civilians. The 10-year-old child was out helping his brothers just to get something to eat under this siege. Why would you do this to them? What did they do wrong?”

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