2023-10-19 13:00:08
EPAEffects of destruction in the Arab National Hospital (Baptist).
The National Arab Hospital (formerly the Baptist Hospital) in the Gaza Strip was transformed into a pool of blood, as a result of the explosion that occurred in its courtyards on the 17th of this October.
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Gaza Health Ministry officials say at least 471 people were killed in the explosion.
But Israel disputes this number, as an Israeli Foreign Ministry spokesman said it was “a few dozen.”
With independent organizations unable to access the site, it is difficult to verify the number.
Hundreds of families who were displaced from the northern Gaza Strip took refuge in the hospital due to the violent Israeli bombing of the neighborhoods located in the northern Gaza Strip.
Israel and the Palestinian Islamic Jihad movement are exchanging accusations of responsibility for the explosion that led to the death of a large number of women and children.
The hospital and the setbacks he went through?
The Arab National Hospital is also known as the “Baptist Hospital.” It is located in a residential area in the Al-Zaytoun neighborhood in the Gaza Strip, surrounded by the Church of St. Porphyrius, the Al-Shamaa Mosque, and the cemetery of Sheikh Shaaban.
The hospital – one of the oldest hospitals in Gaza – is affiliated with the Anglican Episcopal Church in Jerusalem.
It was established in 1882, by the missionary mission that was affiliated with England. The Baptist Church is considered one of three Christian churches in Gaza, namely the Church of St. Porphyrius and the Latin Church.
The Baptist Hospital was destroyed during World War I, but it was rebuilt once more in 1919 and was called the Arab National Hospital.
At the end of the era of the British Mandate over Palestine, when Gaza belonged to Egypt, the Evangelical missionary mission affiliated with England decided to close the doors of the hospital, but the Baptist mission took care of it and its management.
In the late 1940s and 1950s, a dispute broke out over ownership of the hospital following the Egyptian administration abolished the Civil Endowment Law in Gaza, which exposed its property and lands to an ownership dispute.
However, the hospital supervisors continued to provide services to patients despite the Israeli occupation of the Gaza Strip in 1967. They also built a second floor to include an office, a laboratory, and three rooms allocated for various therapeutic purposes.
The hospital administration provided training services to local students and certified them as laboratory technicians, in addition to establishing the first physical therapy unit in the sector.
AFP A view of Gaza City during a missile attack.
But the hospital suffered a new setback in 1976, when the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA) cut aid to it and stopped its support for its nursing school. Its services declined and the number of its employees decreased, as the number of doctors in it decreased to only three and 28 nurses, which led to The number of patients decreased.
At the end of the 1970s, its ownership returned to the Episcopal Diocese of Jerusalem.
The hospital continued to provide its services following receiving funding from the United Palestinian Society in the United States.
Other departments were built in addition to providing advanced medical equipment to transform it into a health institution that includes different departments. The Department of Emergency and Surgical Operations such as Orthopedics was added to it, along with other departments such as the Department of Obstetrics, Physical Therapy, Burns, the Radiology Department, outpatient clinics and its own laboratory.
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