Al-Ahli Baptist Hospital, once a symbol of healing in war-torn northern Gaza, now lies silent and broken. After a devastating Israeli airstrike reduced key departments to ruins, the World Health Organization has confirmed that the hospital can no longer function — and the blockade makes repair impossible.

Margaret Harris, spokesperson for the WHO, reported that vital services such as radiology and laboratory diagnostics are inoperable. The equipment needed to restore these services cannot enter Gaza due to the suffocating Israeli siege. "The hospital cannot receive patients. It cannot offer care," Harris stated, highlighting the paralysis inflicted on Gaza’s crumbling health system.

Inside the damaged facility, 40 critically ill patients remain, stranded with no safe passage to alternative hospitals. A small team of medical staff continues to risk their lives to provide what care they can, surrounded by the charred remnants of a place once dedicated to saving lives.

The bombing of Al-Ahli follows the deliberate targeting of other major hospitals in Gaza — Al-Shifa, the Indonesian Hospital, and Kamal Adwan — part of a sustained military campaign that has now stretched into its nineteenth month. With each strike, Gaza’s health infrastructure is being dismantled, piece by piece.

Al-Ahli, built in 1882 and operated by the Anglican Episcopal Church, had become the last hope for thousands in the north. Its destruction is not just a humanitarian tragedy — it is the silencing of one of Gaza’s oldest voices of care.