This post is also available in: SpanishDawn in Gaza City did not come calmly; it came with a mandate: evacuate the Jordanian Hospital. The military order fell like a collective sentence over corridors flooded with oxygen, over pulsing incubators, over old people on respirators, over mothers clutching unconscious children. The gravity of the instruction — to clear the hospital — is not bureaucracy: it is a direct threat to the lives of the most vulnerable. Gaza’s medical services reported at least 31 dead, bodies recovered from various bombings inside Gaza City, while columns of armored vehicles advanced and demolitions of residential buildings continued their apocalypse-like pace. What is happening in Gaza City, which awakens today with the order to evacuate an entire hospital — leaving behind those who cannot move or asking staff to abandon them — is a decision with criminal consequences.