ISRAEL bombed the al-Ahli hospital in Gaza City yesterday, the last major hospital providing critical healthcare in northern Gaza.

The bombing was part of a wave of air raids that killed at least 21 people. The hospital was hurriedly evacuated following a warning, with one girl dying because during the evacuation medics were unable to provide her with urgent care. Critically ill patients were wheeled out onto the street in their beds.

Al-Ahli is owned by the Anglican Diocese of Jerusalem, which condemned the decision to bomb a hospital, a war crime, on “Palm Sunday, the start of the most sacred week of the Christian year.” Palm Sunday commemorates Jesus’s entry to Jerusalem.