‘They believed it was safe’: death toll rising after strike at Gaza hospital
by Bethan McKernan in Jerusalem from World news | The Guardian on (#6FN8E)
Health officials say blast killed at least 500 as footage shows fire engulfing medical centre owned by Anglican church
Hundreds of people are reported to have been killed in an airstrike on a crowded hospital in Gaza City, in the biggest single loss of life in the blockaded territory in all the five wars between Hamas and Israel since the militants took over the strip in 2007.
The Gaza health ministry, which is run by Hamas, said at least 500 people were killed on Tuesday night in what it said was an Israeli airstrike on al-Ahli al-Arabi, also known as the Baptist hospital. A spokesperson for the Gaza civil defence put the number of killed at about 300.
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