Patients evacuated as Israel hits Gaza hospital

GAZA/JERUSALEM — Israel struck a hospital in northern Gaza early Sunday, forcing patients to evacuate as attacks intensified across the Strip.

The predawn strike hit Al-Ahli Hospital in Gaza City, after Israel issued an evacuation warning, according to Gaza's ministry of health. One patient died during the evacuation because medical staff were unable to provide urgent care, it said.

Hours later, a separate strike on a car in Deir al-Balah in central Gaza killed at least seven people, according to staff at the morgue of the Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital, which received the bodies.