by Brian Shilhavy, Health Impact News:
It was widely reported today that an air strike has bombed a Christian hospital in Gaza killing more than 500 people, many of them women and children.
Over 500 people were killed in an Israeli airstrike on the Baptist hospital in Gaza, Health Ministry spokesman Ashraf al-Qudra told Anadolu Agency (AA) on Tuesday.
Husam Abu Safeya, head doctor for MedGlobal, a Chicago-based non-governmental organization, cited his colleague Husam Abu Safeya, a doctor working in northern Gaza as saying: “We can’t deal with the large number of deaths and injuries. Most victims are women and children sleeping in the hospital. We expect more hospitals to be bombed. There is no safe place in Gaza.”
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Footage showed corpses scattered across the hospital grounds.
“Hundreds of victims are still under the rubble,” a spokesman was quoted as saying by the French Press Agency (AFP).
The media office of Gaza’s Hamas government described the attack as a “war crime.”
“The hospital was housing hundreds of sick and wounded, and people forcibly displaced from their homes” because of other strikes, a statement said.
Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas declared three days of mourning following the deadly air strike on a hospital in Gaza.
“What is taking place is genocide. We call on the international community to intervene immediately to stop this massacre. Silence is no longer acceptable,” a statement issued by the Palestinian Liberation Organisation said in response to the attack.
Meanwhile, the Israeli army, for its part, said reports of a possible airstrike on the hospital “are still under review.”
Daniel Hagari, an Israeli army spokesman, said he does not have all the information yet, and further details will be provided when possible, according to The Times of Israel newspaper. (Source.)
This horrible incident shows an important truth about the population in Gaza that is seldom reported in the U.S. media, that Muslims are not the only residents in Gaza, but that there is a strong Christian presence there as well.
Chuck Baldwin is one of many pastors from the U.S. who has visited Israel and Palestine to hold services for Christians, and in his latest newsletter he wrote:
I’ve been to Israel and Palestine. I preached in two churches there: One was in Bethlehem, and the other was in Jerusalem. Over 95% of the Christians in attendance at these services were Palestinians; they were not Israelis.
And I’ve got to tell you that the Palestinian people I met were among the kindest, sweetest, most humble, most gentle and most Christ-like people I have ever met—anywhere! (Full article.)
The Al-Ahli Arab Hospital in Gaza City that was bombed today is a Christian hospital managed by the Anglican Episcopal Church in Jerusalem. The hospital has been in operation since 1882, and was founded by the Church Mission Society of the Church of England. Later, the hospital was managed between 1954 and 1982 by the Medical Mission of the Southern Baptist Church. Since 1980, the hospital has been run by the Anglican Episcopal Church in Jerusalem.
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