Baptist Church’s Al-Ahli Hospital in Gaza Strip Bombed, Palestinian Ministry Reports 500 Dead
By Gwen
Posted Oct 30, 2026 at 11:14 AM
Al-Ahli Hospital, which the source also calls Al-Mamadani (Al-Ahli) Hospital, is a small medical institution affiliated with the Baptist Church inside the Gaza Strip. According to the source, the Israeli army, which it refers to as the occupation army, bombed the hospital, and the source describes the strike as a humanitarian catastrophe. Patients in a hospital are among those most in need of protection (Psalm 82:3).
The Palestinian Ministry of Health announced that the number of deaths resulting from the bombing of the hospital had reached 500, and it said the figure was subject to increase. The source reports the figure as the ministry’s announcement and does not include a response from the Israeli military.
The Baptist Church in Gaza was founded in 1950 by the pastor Hanna Masaad. The source says it serves 200 worshippers and serves between 150 and 2,500 of Gaza’s Christians. It is one of three churches serving Christians in Gaza, along with St. Porphyrius Church and the Latin Church, and it is the only Protestant church among them. The Baptist Church opened the first Christian library in Gaza in 2006.
The source places the hospital strike within a wider escalation. It says Israeli bombardment of Gaza had continued for an eleventh consecutive day since the launch of Operation “Al-Aqsa Flood.” The Izz al-Din al-Qassam Brigades, the military wing of the Palestinian movement Hamas, launched that operation on a Saturday, and the source says its fighters infiltrated into occupied territories and that Hamas targeted gatherings of the occupation army during the bombardment.
The source describes the operation as part of the Palestinians’ legitimate right to defend their rights and occupied lands. It also says the operation came amid global silence over what it calls violations committed by the occupation over six decades of military occupation against the civilian population.
Source: Read the original report (translated from Arabic)
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