On Thursday morning, a ballistic missile launched by Iran towards Israel hit the Soroca Medical Center at Negev Desert City of Bir Sheva, which is called a “Direct Hit” by the Army Radio, with the number of casualties unknown yet.
Update: Iran has admitted to damage the hospital through the Islamic Republic News Agency, but it was a target for a military target, which is considered in the “village-yam technology park” next to the hospital.
According to Google Maps, Gav Yam Technology Park is about one mile from Soroka Hospital.
Update: A source told Breitbart News that the building that was killed in the hospital was vacated as Soroka on Wednesday reduced the number of patients by 40% to ensure that there would be enough space in “safe rooms” or bomb shelters. The missile hit an area that connects different wings of the facility. “If the missile covered a few meters in another direction [it] It would have been frightening. ,
Israel’s army radio confirmed the effects and stated that there was widespread damage in the hospital, although it was not known whether someone was injured. Like other large public buildings in Israel, hospitals are equipped with bomb shelters.
Soroka is an important hospital in southern Israel that serves Jewish communities with a large billion population. It is also the only level 1 trauma center in the region, with it even more important.
Soroca Medical Center (Wikimedia Commons)
Soroka has recently been in the news because it is a hospital that frees the Israeli hostages, and because it is a hospital that injures Israeli soldiers by competing against Hamas inside the Gaza Strip.
Army Radio reported that despite the fact that the Home Front Command had given the voice of all-cleaer, which allowed Israelies to leave bomb shelters, people were being asked not to contact the hospital, even for treatment.
Other missiles landed in the cities of Holon and Tel Aviv. Two barrage of ballistic missiles were reported, one of the thirty missiles and one of the twenty missiles – Iran launched the largest in several days.
Israel’s arrow missile defense system managed to disrupt most missiles, but the sheer number of missiles overwhelmed the rescue, causing some to get out of interceptors and kill Israel.
Firing in a hospital is a war crime. Israel has launched military operations against hospitals in Gaza, but those people have been commanded by Hamas militants who themselves are a war crime, and also causes such facilities to lose their protected position under international law.
Israel Defense Force (IDF) is engaged in continuous operation to destroy Iran’s missile launcher and its nuclear sites. Iran’s leaders were still promising an aggressive attack against Israel.
Update: Army Radio reported that other missile effects thus have only suffered only minor injuries, but that the hospital had suffered severe damage, and officials were still assessing the situation.
Israeli military correspondent Dorn Kadosh said that the officials concluded that Iran deliberately targeted the hospital. Army Radio reported that many people were injured in various departments.
Army Radio later stated that a resident in an old building in Holon was trapped in debris, but was alive. The entire floor of the building was destroyed.
Army Radio later stated that a four-storey building was killed in an old part of Holon-one where some buildings are equipped with bomb shelters, as required by recent building codes.
Army Radio said that – until an hour after the attack – there were no serious injuries in the hospital, but this situation could change.
Preliminary reports of the hospital reported that the army was focused on addressing the risk generated by the damaged building still; There was no report of the injured patients or employees yet. Army Radio said, “It could have been very bad.”
Update: Israeli President Isaac Herzog mentioned in a statement: “Soroka Hospital is located at Bare Sheva, one of the best of Israel, serving the entire Negev region, taking care of Israelis and our neighbors of all religions, which especially come to treat there.
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