The Anglican Diocese of Jerusalem, which operates the Ahli Arab Hospital, reports that two missile strikes demolished a two-storey laboratory and damaged the pharmacy and emergency department buildings.
The Diocese says: “A mere twenty minutes prior to the attack, the Israeli army ordered all patients, employees, and displaced people to immediately evacuate the hospital premises prior to its bombing.” It adds that a child who previously suffered a head-injury died as a result of an evacuation process that had to be rushed.
The attack – the fifth during this war, and carried out on Palm Sunday – is outrageous. The Israeli claim that the hospital was a Hamas “command and control centre” rings hollow in the wake of the untruths around their March 23 killings of emergency workers in Gaza. A broad swath of international public opinion no longer believes Israeli protestations of innocence.
It weighs heavily on my soul that the Israeli government is now pursuing a policy of ethnic cleansing in Gaza, in contravention of international law and with the connivance of the United States. A call to all those prepared to listen is urgent and important.
The full text of a statement issued by the Episcopal Diocese of Jerusalem follows.
News reports relevant to this statement can be found here:
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