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.”