Amy Goodman
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After Al-Ahli Hospital Blast Kills 500, Gaza Doctor Fears for His Life & Safety of His Patients
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7:51Now PlayingMedical workers in Gaza are racing to treat survivors of a massive explosion Tuesday at Al-Ahli Baptist Hospital, where displaced people were sheltering from Israel's unrelenting attacks when, Palestinian officials say, an Israeli airstrike hit the compound, killing hundreds of people. Israel denied responsibility, blaming a failed rocket launch by militants for the blast. Israeli strikes had already damaged the hospital once before, and have killed medical workers and struck other medical facilities since it started bombing Gaza in retaliation for a deadly Hamas raid into Israel on October 7. "As a physician, I'm afraid if I now leave and go to work, my hospital is going to be hit, as well," says Dr. Hammam Alloh, an internal medicine and nephrology specialist at Gaza's Al-Shifa Hospital, which is the largest hospital in Gaza. He describes how "almost 40,000" people are seeking refuge outside of hospital buildings in Gaza.
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