Israel destroyed the main medical center of a charity in Gaza City after ordering its evacuation, in yet another grave violation of international law.
The Palestinian Medical Relief Society said an Israeli strike reduced its six-story building in the central Samer area to rubble. It said the center was one of the main facilities in the city providing blood donation and testing services, trauma care, cancer medicine and chronic disease treatment.
There was no immediate comment from the Israeli military, which has repeatedly bombed and raided hospitals in Gaza throughout the war.
Multiple hospitals in famine-stricken Gaza City have been forced to shut down as Israeli forces advance. Israel audaciously accuses Hamas of using medical facilities for military purposes, but fails to provide evidence of such a presence.
The head of the World Health Organization, which has partnered with the charity, condemned the strike. "Attacks on health facilities must end. The senseless violence must stop. Ceasefire!” Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus wrote on X.
