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ASHKELON, Israel — The largest hospital on Israel’s southern coast has gone underground. Wary of a missile strike against it from the Gaza Strip, Ashkelon’s Barzilai Hospital has moved its most essential departments into an underground bomb shelter.
The hospital in this city of 120,000 people about 11 miles north of the Gaza border also has sent half its patients home to get them out of harm’s way. Those remaining are jammed in rooms previously used for storage.
On Sunday, two rockets fell in Ashkelon itself and another 22 in the surrounding district, and Barzilai’s makeshift, fortified emergency room began receiving its first casualties. Three people were treated for shrapnel wounds and several others for shock. The Associated Press
