[Lapidomedia by Sam Hailes] Gaza’s only Christian hospital, Al-Ahli is ‘struggling to provide critical health care’ as the death toll in the Strip reaches 2000.

The UK-based Church Mission Society (CMS) who founded the hospital are backing the Episcopal Church’s Diocese of Jerusalem’s humanitarian appeal which seeks to raise £300,000 to fund fuel, medical supplies, food, the hiring of staff and repairs to the infrastructure in the Gaza City hospital.

CMS says hospital staff have maintained an ‘around-the-clock presence’ despite the recent fighting.

The CMS Regional manager for Europe Middle East and North Africa, Tanas Alqassis says parts of the hospital are damaged and supplies are running out.

‘It’s been very hard. Right now we are trying to get more funds so we can send it to the diocese to buy medicine and send it to the hospital.’

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[Editor's note: The Episcopal Church in Jerusalem and the Middle East Diocese of Jerusalem also reported recently that one of the hospital's nurses Nivine Attar was killed at home after her night shift at the hospital. She was killed on Sunday 10th August as she tried to protect her two daughters (2 1/2 years and six months) during a bombardment of the area around her home. The girls are now orphans.]