A Hamas health official said Sunday that an Israeli air strike destroyed the cardiac ward of Gaza's biggest al-Shifa hospital, as fighting around the facility raged.
"The occupier [Israel] completely destroyed the cardiac department of al-Shifa hospital ... The two-storey building has been completely destroyed in an airstrike," Youssef Abu Rish, deputy health minister in the Hamas-run Gaza Strip, told AFP.
Witnesses confirmed the strike, which AFP was unable to independently verify.
A Hamas health official said Sunday that an Israeli air strike destroyed the cardiac ward of Gaza's biggest al-Shifa hospital, as fighting around the facility raged.
"The occupier [Israel] completely destroyed the cardiac department of al-Shifa hospital ... The two-storey building has been completely destroyed in an airstrike," Youssef Abu Rish, deputy...