( CNN ) -- In the violent bedlam that has engulfed Gaza , not even the hospitals are immune from attack . Such an attack happened Monday afternoon to the Shuhada al-Aqsa hospital in central Gaza , where several artillery shells slammed into buildings there . Video from the scene shows doctors frantically bringing hospital workers and patients to the relative safety of the ground floor . One patient and four people visiting the hospital , three of them children , were killed in the strike , according to health workers . At least 30 were injured , they said . Despite the risks , Eloise Bollack , a freelance French journalist , made her way to the hospital . The latest reports from Gaza and Israel . `` The road to Deir Al-Balah [ the neighborhood where the Shuhada al-Aqsa hospital is located ] was really dangerous and exposed , '' she said . `` At one point , when we arrived near the hospital ... a bomb fell 50 meters away from us . '' Bollack said that she decided to leave because `` it was too dangerous to stick around . '' But on the way back to Gaza City , her team saw a convoy of the International Committee of the Red Cross and Red Crescent Society making its way to Deir al-Balah . She did a U-turn and followed the vehicles . `` All the hospital staff were on the ground floor when we arrived . They were waiting for the ICRC convoy so they can evacuate the patients '' to other hospitals . `` We started walking around to the other floors to see the damage . One side of the third floor was bombed several times ; we saw a lot of impact hits from tank shells on the walls , '' she said . Operating theaters and the maternity ward were among the rooms damaged . `` Some walls and rooms were totally destroyed , covered with dust and debris . Everything was upside down . The shock was so strong that a pillow in one of the rooms was hanging on the fan on the ceiling . `` The tank shells fired not only penetrated through the exterior wall but managed to go through several walls inside the hospital , shows the power of the impact these shells did on the hospital . '' The hospital is one of three in Gaza to have been damaged during nearly two weeks of conflict . Last week , the al-Wafa hospital in northern Gaza was hit by an airstrike . Israel : Hamas was storing weapons there . Israeli officials say that Hamas has deliberately used hospitals and buildings around them to store weapons or build launching sites for their rockets . In the case of the Shuhada al-Aqsa , the Israeli Defense Forces said that their `` initial investigation suggests that a cache of anti-tank missiles was stored in the immediate vicinity of the hospital . This cache was successfully targeted by IDF forces . '' In a statement , the IDF added : `` Civilian casualties are a tragic inevitability of the brutal and systematic exploitation of homes , hospitals and mosques in Gaza . While the IDF takes every possible measure to minimize civilian casualties , Hamas and its deliberate tactic of embedding terrorist activities within the urban environment is ultimately responsible . '' For the patients and the medical staff trying to save their lives , the consequence is the same . Hospitals are running out of rooms to cope with admissions and running short of medicine and other essential supplies . Patients lie in corridors . The United Nations has arranged for truckloads of medical supplies to cross into Gaza from Israel , but some are delayed because of the conflict . Paramedics pay the ultimate price . Paramedics have been among the casualties as they have raced through Gaza 's crowded streets to collect the injured . On Sunday , one paramedic died and four injured yesterday when their ambulance was hit during Israeli shelling of the Shujaiya neighborhood . The Gaza Health Ministry says 24 ambulances have been destroyed or disabled since the conflict began . Bollack is based in Ramallah in the West Bank and has long been sympathetic to the Palestinian people . But she says she is committed to nonviolence and is committed to documenting the suffering of civilians . She says Gaza 's hospitals are gradually being reduced to ruins . `` You can see around the [ Shuhada al-Aqsa ] hospital that there is water running in the street because the water tanks were bombed and the water system that feeds the hospital was destroyed by the shells . '' But even if the hospitals themselves are unsafe , they continue working , she says . `` They are planning to evacuate the entire hospital because it 's too dangerous , but for now , they want to keep the hospital running because it 's the only hospital around . '' Israel finds Hamas are no longer amateur fighters . Deaths mount in Gaza and Israel as U.S. pushes cease-fire . Caught in the violence , it 's the hardest question in Gaza . Mother finds wounded son in hospital where she works .
Shuhada al-Aqsa hospital in central Gaza is slammed by artillery shells . Video of the attack shows hospital staff scrambling to move patients to safety . One patient and four visitors , three of them children , were killed , Palestinians say . Israeli Defense Forces says Hamas was storing weapons there .