Zeinat al-Jundi, 56, was staying at the al-Ahli Arab Hospital in Gaza City with her husband, who was injured in a bombing in the city’s Shuja’iyya neighborhood last week. Doctors had amputated his legs as a result of his injuries, and he remained at the hospital during his recovery period. Al-Jundi is her husband’s only companion, staying with him all night to attend to his needs.
At 1:00 a.m. on Sunday, as al-Jundi was preparing to lie down on the floor next to her husband after a long day of caring for him, a man entered the hospital’s reception area, shouting that the Israeli army was speaking to him on the phone and ordering everyone to evacuate.
Once the evacuation order was confirmed, everyone attempting to leave the hospital ended up injured in the rush. An injured child died during the evacuation as he could not receive urgent medical treatment. “There were mutilated bodies, children — I swear they were children — with their hands torn and amputated,” al-Jundi told Mondoweiss, stating that everyone in the ward was already wounded from last week’s airstrikes. “More than 10 wounded children were in the ward. Everyone was bleeding.”
“Those who could get up and leave, left. Some dragged their patients on the hospital bed to the street, and others like me couldn’t move; I couldn’t carry my husband and take him out of the hospital, so I waited for death alongside him,” al-Jundi said.
The Israeli army bombed the Anglican-run al-Ahli Arab Hospital — locally known by its former name, the Baptist Hospital — in the predawn hours of Sunday morning. According to the Ministry of Health in Gaza, two airstrikes targeted the hospital’s only reception building, the radiology department, the hospital pharmacy, the laboratories, and even a church inside the hospital, which had been converted into an additional reception area for the wounded.
It is not the first time the Israeli army has targeted al-Ahli Hospital; it was bombed on October 17, 2023, in a massacre that killed over 400 displaced people taking shelter in the hospital’s crowded courtyard. At the time, directly bombing hospitals was still taboo, so the Israeli army denied targeting the hospital, instead claiming, without evidence, that an allegedly misfired Islamic Jihad rocket had struck the hospital.
In the most recent strike on al-Ahli, the Israeli army this time admitted targeting the hospital but claimed to have been attacking a Hamas command-and-control center. The Israeli army made similar claims in 2023 and 2024 about al-Shifa Hospital in Gaza City. After the two invasions of al-Shifa in November 2023 and March 2024, no evidence could be provided to substantiate these claims.
The Israeli army has not so far provided any evidence of a Hamas command center in al-Ahli Arab Hospital.
Run by the Anglican Church, al-Ahli Arab Hospital is located near the Church of Saint Porphyrius, where Palestinian Christians in Gaza were celebrating Palm Sunday today. The Israeli army had earlier bombed the Church of Saint Porphyrius in October 2023 in an airstrike that killed 17 people.
Al-Ahli Hospital out of service as Israeli army expands attacks
“We were forced to halt services,” Dr. Fadel Naim, director of al-Ahli, told Mondoweiss. “The hospital was already suffering before this strike. Now, it cannot provide even the bare minimum of services. The destruction is extensive and difficult to repair. It may require weeks or months.”
The hospital director pointed out that the strike directly impacted the ability of the health system in northern Gaza to provide adequate healthcare services to residents. Al-Ahli was the last functioning hospital in the area after the destruction of al-Shifa in March 2024 and Kamal Adwan Hospital in December 2024.
“The Arab Baptist Hospital provided CT scans, the equipment for which is only available here in northern Gaza,” the hospital director said. “Over the past year, we have taken 25,000 CT scans, meaning more than 2,000 monthly scans. The cessation of these services will have a significant impact on patients and the wounded.”
“We will have to distribute patients to other hospitals,” he says, noting that the Israeli army is raiding areas near the hospital and expanding its military operations in the al-Daraj and al-Sha’af neighborhoods in eastern Gaza City. “But none of the other hospitals are equipped to provide health services. This could lead to the loss of patients’ lives and limbs, causing permanent disabilities.”
Muhammad Abu Nasser, 34, was injured in a bombing in the Zeitoun area east of Gaza City and was transferred to al-Ahli for treatment. The injury left him unable to walk or move, and he was alone when the evacuation warning came. He failed to leave the hospital.
“We are sleeping in the safest place on earth. It is a hospital, a hospital where there are only people in pain and moaning all night over the loss of their loved ones and limbs, bleeding and spitting blood,” Abu Nasser told Mondoweiss. “They bombed the reception area where the wounded are admitted, and they bombed the pharmacy that supplies us with medicine. What’s left for us?”
Abu Nasser’s injury prevented him from moving and he had no companions accompanying him. He said that the night of the bombing was terrifying for him. “We lived through a horrific night. All the patients were crying loudly and screaming in fear. We were all taking our last breaths, expecting to die at any moment. We all gathered in one place and surrendered to what was about to happen because there was nothing we could do.”
Abu Nasser explained the situation the patients were experiencing after the attack, noting that he, like everyone inside the hospital, needed treatment at a time when the hospital had stopped providing health services to patients due to the bombing.
“I can’t live without treatment. I can’t walk or move. There’s nowhere else to go. There aren’t even dressings for wounds anymore,” he said. “We’ve been left here to die slowly. Even the few medications we were given, the occupation deprived us of them by bombing the pharmacy. The hospital has collapsed.”
The NYT report on this says that no one was killed in the airstrike, as if the boy who died in the rush to escape was nothing to do with Israel’s newest war crime.
Every Day The Gaza Holocaust Continues, The Empire Tells The Truth About Itself
Caitlin Johnstone
Apr 13, 2025
“Every day the Gaza holocaust continues, the western empire tells the truth about itself.
The US government is telling you the truth about itself.
Israel is telling you the truth about itself.
Their western allies are telling you the truth about themselves.
The western media are telling you the truth about themselves.
One of the most important stages when preparing to leave an abusive relationship is the information-gathering stage. This is when you begin quietly observing and making note of your partner’s abusive behavior, letting them tell you the truth about themselves with their actions rather than their words.
The information-gathering stage is important because long-term abusive relationships are usually very confusing for the victim; if the abuse were simple and easy to understand, the relationship wouldn’t have continued into the long term. It’s therefore often helpful to cultivate a clear understanding of the lay of the land before trying to navigate your way out of it, especially if your abuser is particularly manipulative and adept at confusing you. This ensures that you will be able to view their manipulations with distrust, so you won’t get sucked in by them.
As infuriating as it is to watch this genocide drag out month after bloody month, it would be a mistake to believe everyone is just passively witnessing it all.
If you watched someone you love in the information-gathering stage prior to leaving an abusive relationship, you might get frustrated by what appears to be inertia and passivity on their part when what you want to see is them sprinting for the door with a suitcase. But they’re not inert or passive — they’re gathering information.
Westerners are in a psychologically abusive relationship with the empire. Our minds are hammered with propaganda indoctrination from as soon as we are old enough to start learning about our world to ensure our compliance with the power structure that rules over us. It happens in school. It happens with the mass media. It happens with the Silicon Valley platforms we look to for information.”
https://www.caitlinjohnst.one/p/every-day-the-gaza-holocaust-continues
So where is the “humanitarian interventionist” industry to stop the slaughter of hundreds of thousands of precious Palestinian lives? Samantha Power?? I get it. Palestinians are “humanitarian animals” so don’t qualify.
As a Swedish MEP commented several months ago, “human rights have a skin colour; the darker you are the less human rights you have.”