Israeli missiles hit Al-Ahli Arab Baptist hospital in Gaza, patients evacuated: medics

Palestinians inspect a site where medics said two Israeli missiles hit a building inside the Al-Ahli Arab Baptist Hospital, shortly after patients were evacuated following a call from someone who identified himself with Israeli security, in Gaza City on April 13, 2025.
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Two Israeli missiles hit a building inside a main Gaza hospital on Sunday (April 13, 2025), destroying the emergency and reception department and damaging other structures, medics said.

Health officials at the Al-Ahli Arab Baptist Hospital evacuated the patients from the building after one person said he received a call from someone who identified himself with the Israeli security shortly before the attack took place.

Palestinians inspect a site where medics said two Israeli missiles hit a building inside the Al-Ahli Arab Baptist Hospital in Gaza City on April 13, 2025.
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Reuters

No casualties were reported, according to the civil emergency service.

The Israeli military was looking into the report, a spokesperson said.

Images circulating on social media, which Reuters could not immediately verify, showed dozens of people leaving the premises, with some appearing to be dragging sick relatives on hospital beds.

The Hamas-run government media office condemned the attack and said in a statement that Israel was deliberately destroying Gaza’s healthcare system.

Israel says Hamas systematically exploits civilian structures and that its fighters regularly embed in Gaza’s hospitals, which the militant group denies. Israeli forces have carried out numerous raids in medical facilities in the enclave.

In October 2023, a deadly blast at a parking lot in the compound of Al-Ahli hospital was blamed by Hamas on an Israeli air strike. Israel said a failed rocket launch by the Palestinian Islamic Jihad group had caused the blast, and this was later concluded by Human Rights Watch after an investigation. The militant group denied it was responsible.