For the twelfth time since the beginning of the war, Israeli forces have bombed the grounds of Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital in central Gaza, striking a tent sheltering displaced civilians and injuring several people. The attack, which landed just metres from the internal medicine ward, adds to a long list of assaults on medical facilities as Gaza’s health system faces targeted annihilation.

The strike is part of a sustained campaign that has seen hospitals reduced to rubble, ambulances attacked, and medics killed while tending to the wounded. The repeated targeting of Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital reflects more than disregard, it reflects intent: to dismantle every layer of Gaza’s medical lifeline and further punish a besieged population already enduring mass displacement, famine, and disease.

Twelve separate assaults on the same hospital, documented across months by hospital staff, are not accidents. They form part of a systematic strategy to break the will and resilience of Gaza’s civilians by crushing the very institutions meant to protect life.

Despite repeated warnings, condemnations, and pleas from humanitarian agencies, the bombardment of hospitals continues, met with international silence or complicity. Those sheltering in tents on hospital grounds are not combatants; they are families with nowhere left to go. The message being sent is clear: in Gaza, not even the sick and displaced are safe.