Apr 13, 2025 08:14 PM
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INTRO: The Archbishop of York has condemned Israel’s “appalling” latest strike on a hospital in Gaza, which left a girl dead. The pre-dawn strike on Palm Sunday hit Anglican-run Al-Ahli Hospital – the only Christian unit in Gaza.
Patients were forced to evacuate and a girl died as people fled because medical staff were unable to provide her urgent care, Gaza’s ministry of health reported. Israel gave an immediate evacuation order 20 minutes before it attacked, according to the Diocese of Jerusalem (DoJ), which runs the hospital.
The country is intensifying its attacks across the Gaza Strip and the DoJ said this is the fifth time the hospital has been bombed since the start of the war in 2023.
Palm Sunday is the first day of Holy Week, the most sacred week of the Christian year. Archbishop of York Stephen Cottrell said in a statement on Sunday: “The Anglican-run Ahli Hospital in Gaza is a place of healing and care for Palestinians living through unimaginable suffering.
“In unbearable conditions, its heroic doctors and nurses have cared for civilians who have endured 18 months of devastating violence. For the only Christian hospital in Gaza to be attacked on Palm Sunday is especially appalling. I share in the grief of our Palestinian brothers and sisters in the Diocese of Jerusalem.” (MORE - details)
INTRO: The Archbishop of York has condemned Israel’s “appalling” latest strike on a hospital in Gaza, which left a girl dead. The pre-dawn strike on Palm Sunday hit Anglican-run Al-Ahli Hospital – the only Christian unit in Gaza.
Patients were forced to evacuate and a girl died as people fled because medical staff were unable to provide her urgent care, Gaza’s ministry of health reported. Israel gave an immediate evacuation order 20 minutes before it attacked, according to the Diocese of Jerusalem (DoJ), which runs the hospital.
The country is intensifying its attacks across the Gaza Strip and the DoJ said this is the fifth time the hospital has been bombed since the start of the war in 2023.
Palm Sunday is the first day of Holy Week, the most sacred week of the Christian year. Archbishop of York Stephen Cottrell said in a statement on Sunday: “The Anglican-run Ahli Hospital in Gaza is a place of healing and care for Palestinians living through unimaginable suffering.
“In unbearable conditions, its heroic doctors and nurses have cared for civilians who have endured 18 months of devastating violence. For the only Christian hospital in Gaza to be attacked on Palm Sunday is especially appalling. I share in the grief of our Palestinian brothers and sisters in the Diocese of Jerusalem.” (MORE - details)
