An Israeli bomb leveled a six-story medical facility in Gaza City on Tuesday.
According to The Palestinian Medical Relief Society (PMRS), its medical center was destroyed after Israel ordered its evacuation. PMRS is a Christian Aid organization.
Israeli airstrikes bombed a medical facility by our local partner, the Palestinian Medical Relief Society (PMRS) in Al Samer. This clinic was established in 2006 & was one of the few original clinics left in Gaza that employed 45 people & treated up to 1,000 people a day. pic.twitter.com/VUX9mQSV7V
— Christian Aid (@christian_aid) September 23, 2025
“It all happened so suddenly. We just heard a commotion in the street, and then someone came and told us they were planning to strike the building and the entire block,” a PMRS staffer at the clinic said. “They gave us thirty minutes to evacuate. Everyone rushed out, and about half an hour later, they hit the building. The whole tower came down, and even the entire block suffered massive destruction.
Before the building was destroyed, 1,000 people were treated each day at the medical center. It was one of the main blood donation centers in the Strip.
The IDF did not comment on the strike. Israel has damaged or destroyed nearly all hospitals and medical facilities in Gaza. Nasser Hospital in Khan Younis is the only fully functioning hospital in the Strip.
The PMRS said the attacks were part of a systematic campaign against the healthcare system in Gaza. “This latest destruction is part of a wider pattern. In the last three weeks alone, three of our clinics have been targeted: Al-Shatae Primary Health Care clinic – destroyed; Tal al-Hawa clinic – partially damaged; Omar al-Mukhtar clinic – now destroyed.” The statement continued. “These deliberate attacks are systematically dismantling what little remains of Gaza’s healthcare infrastructure and shows Israel’s total disregard for the international community and the humanitarian principles our international partners stand for.”
UN experts previously said Israel was committing “medicide,” the deliberate destruction of the medical infrastructure, in Gaza.
A Christian Aid official said Israeli attacks are preventing medical care in Gaza. “Our partners’ lifesaving work in Gaza is being constantly degraded by the Israeli military. Two weeks ago, it was our partner PCHR’s HQ office building in Gaza City. Now this,” Katie Roxburgh, Christian Aid’s Programme Manager for Gaza, said. “It’s hard to find the words when almost every day for nearly two years there’s a new horror. This was a clinic – it should be a safe place where people can come for help. Instead, they came and were bombed.”
The IDF is ravaging Gaza City with an intense bombing campaign and ground invasion. Israel has ordered the evacuation of the one million Palestinians living in the area. At least half a million people remain in the city.
