MILAN (AP) — Atalanta’s title chances have already effectively slipped away and now it could be at risk of dropping out of the top four of Serie A.
Third-placed Atalanta lost 1-0 at home to Lazio on Sunday for its third straight league defeat.
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Roma's Eldor Shomurodov celebrates after scoring during a Serie A soccer match between Roma and Juventus, at Rome's Olympic Stadium, Sunday, April 6, 2025. (AP Photo/Andrew Medichini)
Roma players celebrate after a goal during a Serie A soccer match between Roma and Juventus, at Rome's Olympic Stadium, Sunday, April 6, 2025. (AP Photo/Andrew Medichini)
Roma's head coach Claudio Ranieri gives instructions during a Serie A soccer match between Roma and Juventus, at Rome's Olympic Stadium, Sunday, April 6, 2025. (AP Photo/Andrew Medichini)
Juventus' Manuel Locatelli, right, reacts after scoring during a Serie A soccer match between Roma and Juventus, at Rome's Olympic Stadium, Sunday, April 6, 2025. (AP Photo/Andrew Medichini)
Juventus' head coach Igor Tudor gives instructions during a Serie A soccer match between Roma and Juventus, at Rome's Olympic Stadium, Sunday, April 6, 2025. (AP Photo/Andrew Medichini)
Lazio's head coach Marco Baroni gestures during the Serie A soccer match between Atalanta and Lazio at the Gewiss Stadium in Bergamo, Italy, Sunday, April 6, 2025. (Stefano Nicoli/LaPresse via AP)
Atalanta's Mateo Retegui and Lazio's Samuel Grigot, left, fight for the ball during the Serie A soccer match between Atalanta and Lazio at the Gewiss Stadium in Bergamo, Italy, Sunday, April 6, 2025. (Stefano Nicoli/LaPresse via AP)
Lazio's Gustav Isaksen, second from right, celebrates with teammates after scoring his team's first goal during the Serie A soccer match between Atalanta and Lazio at the Gewiss Stadium in Bergamo, Italy, Sunday, April 6, 2025. (Stefano Nicoli/LaPresse via AP)
Lazio's Gustav Isaksen scores his side's first goal during the Serie A soccer match between Atalanta and Lazio at the Gewiss Stadium in Bergamo, Italy, Sunday, April 6, 2025. (Stefano Nicoli/LaPresse via AP)
Atalanta's head coach Gian Piero Gasperini shouts instructions during the Serie A soccer match between Atalanta and Lazio at the Gewiss Stadium in Bergamo, Italy, Sunday, April 6, 2025. (Stefano Nicoli/LaPresse via AP)
That has seen Gian Piero Gasperini’s team fall 10 points behind league leader Inter Milan and left it looking nervously over its shoulder.
Atalanta is only two points ahead of Juventus after the Bianconeri drew 1-1 at Roma. Bologna can leapfrog Atalanta if it beats second-placed Napoli on Monday.
Lazio, which came into the match without a victory in Serie A in more than a month, moved to within three points of Atalanta.
Both teams were lacking in confidence and that perhaps explained the cagey first half.
Atalanta appeared reinvigorated after the break and had two quick chances, with Lazio goalkeeper Chrīstos Mandas making an extraordinary save to deny the league’s top scorer Mateo Retegui at point-blank range.
However, it was Lazio which broke the deadlock nine minutes into the second half, through halftime substitute Gustav Isaksen.
Fisayo Dele-Bashiru nodded a long ball over the top down to Isaksen, who scuffed a shot past Marco Carnesecchi.
Roma's streak of seven straight league wins — with only one goal conceded — was ended by Juventus, in Igor Tudor's second match in charge of the Bianconeri.
It was an aggressive start from Juventus, and Roma goalkeeper Mile Svilar had to palm Nico González's header onto his right post.
Juventus took the lead shortly before halftime. Khéphren Thuram's cross was cleared by Zeki Çelik but only to the edge of the area where Manuel Locatelli volleyed it into the ground to bounce into the bottom left corner.
It was the first goal Roma had conceded in Serie A since March 2.
Claudio Ranieri's halftime substitution had an immediate impact as Eldor Shomurodov leveled three minutes after coming on, heading in the rebound from three yards after Michele Di Gregorio had parried Evan N’Dicka's attempt.
Roma moved to within three points of the top four.
Lecce was loudly jeered by its home fans despite rallying to draw 1-1 against Venezia in a relegation dogfight and ending a run of five straight defeats.
Federico Baschirotto headed in the equalizer for Lecce in the 65th after home defender Antonino Gallo hand bundled into his own net at the start of the second half.
Lecce remained in the last position of safety in Serie A, two points above Empoli which drew 0-0 against Cagliari.
Venezia was in penultimate position, five points below Lecce.
Torino forward Che Adams had a penalty saved in a 1-1 draw at home to Hellas Verona.
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Roma's Eldor Shomurodov celebrates after scoring during a Serie A soccer match between Roma and Juventus, at Rome's Olympic Stadium, Sunday, April 6, 2025. (AP Photo/Andrew Medichini)
Roma players celebrate after a goal during a Serie A soccer match between Roma and Juventus, at Rome's Olympic Stadium, Sunday, April 6, 2025. (AP Photo/Andrew Medichini)
Roma's head coach Claudio Ranieri gives instructions during a Serie A soccer match between Roma and Juventus, at Rome's Olympic Stadium, Sunday, April 6, 2025. (AP Photo/Andrew Medichini)
Juventus' Manuel Locatelli, right, reacts after scoring during a Serie A soccer match between Roma and Juventus, at Rome's Olympic Stadium, Sunday, April 6, 2025. (AP Photo/Andrew Medichini)
Juventus' head coach Igor Tudor gives instructions during a Serie A soccer match between Roma and Juventus, at Rome's Olympic Stadium, Sunday, April 6, 2025. (AP Photo/Andrew Medichini)
Lazio's head coach Marco Baroni gestures during the Serie A soccer match between Atalanta and Lazio at the Gewiss Stadium in Bergamo, Italy, Sunday, April 6, 2025. (Stefano Nicoli/LaPresse via AP)
Atalanta's Mateo Retegui and Lazio's Samuel Grigot, left, fight for the ball during the Serie A soccer match between Atalanta and Lazio at the Gewiss Stadium in Bergamo, Italy, Sunday, April 6, 2025. (Stefano Nicoli/LaPresse via AP)
Lazio's Gustav Isaksen, second from right, celebrates with teammates after scoring his team's first goal during the Serie A soccer match between Atalanta and Lazio at the Gewiss Stadium in Bergamo, Italy, Sunday, April 6, 2025. (Stefano Nicoli/LaPresse via AP)
Lazio's Gustav Isaksen scores his side's first goal during the Serie A soccer match between Atalanta and Lazio at the Gewiss Stadium in Bergamo, Italy, Sunday, April 6, 2025. (Stefano Nicoli/LaPresse via AP)
Atalanta's head coach Gian Piero Gasperini shouts instructions during the Serie A soccer match between Atalanta and Lazio at the Gewiss Stadium in Bergamo, Italy, Sunday, April 6, 2025. (Stefano Nicoli/LaPresse via AP)
DEIR AL-BALAH, Gaza (AP) — Israel struck a hospital in northern Gaza early Sunday, forcing patients to evacuate as attacks intensified.
The pre-dawn strike hit Al-Ahli Hospital in Gaza City, after Israel issued an evacuation warning, according to Gaza's ministry of health. One patient, a girl, died during the evacuation because medical staff were unable to provide urgent care, it said.
The hospital is run by the Diocese of Jerusalem, which condemned the attack in a statement, saying it happened on “Palm Sunday, the start of the Holy Week, the most sacred week of the Christian year.” Palm Sunday commemorates Jesus’ entry into Jerusalem.
Israel said it struck a command and control center used by Hamas at the hospital to plan and execute attacks against Israeli civilians and soldiers, without providing evidence. It said prior to the strike, steps were taken to mitigate harm, including issuing warnings, and using precise munitions and aerial surveillance.
In a statement Sunday, Hamas denied the allegations that the hospital was used by militants and called for an independent international investigation.
Hours later, a separate strike on a car in Deir al-Balah in central Gaza, killed at least seven people — six brothers and their friend — according to staff at the morgue of the Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital, which received the bodies. The brothers, of whom the youngest was 10, were buried in Deir al-Balah.
Their father, Ibrahim Abu Mahadi, said his sons worked for a charity that distributes food to Palestinians in Gaza. "For what sin were they killed?” he said.
Associated Press reporters saw the mangled, bloodied car after the attack as relatives wept over the bodies.
Other strikes in the southern city of Khan Younis killed at least three people, according to staff at Nasser Hospital, which received the bodies.
The Israeli military also said they targeted another command and control center in the area of Deir al-Balah when many Hamas militants were present and planning to carry out an attack against Israeli soldiers. This was not connected to the strike on the car in the same area, which the army said it was looking into.
In the last 24 hours, Gaza’s health ministry said that 11 people were killed and more than 100 wounded.
The war started after Hamas killed 1,200 people during its Oct. 7, 2023, attack, mostly civilians, and took 250 people captive, many of whom were eventually freed in ceasefire deals.
More than 50,000 Palestinians in Gaza have so far been killed in Israel’s retaliatory offensive, according to the health ministry there, which does not differentiate between combatants and civilians in its count but says more than half of the dead are women and children.
The strikes came hours after Israel's defense minister said that military activity would rapidly expand across Gaza and that people would have to evacuate from “fighting zones.” Israel also announced Saturday the completion of the Morag corridor, cutting off the southern city of Rafah from the rest of Gaza, with the military saying it would soon expand “vigorously” in most of the small coastal territory.
Israeli authorities have vowed to pressure Hamas to release the remaining 59 hostages, 24 believed to be alive, and accept proposed new ceasefire terms.
The director of Al-Ahli Hospital, Dr. Fadel Naim, said they were warned of the attack before it was struck. In a post on X, he wrote that the emergency room, pharmacy and surrounding buildings were severely damaged, impacting more than 100 patients and dozens of medical staff.
The health ministry said the strike destroyed the ward for outpatients and laboratories and damaged the emergency ward.
Images of the aftermath showed the hospital's caved-in cement roof, surrounded by debris. Dr. Munir al-Boursh, the health ministry's director general called the evacuation frightening, with people carried out into the streets in hospital beds.
“It was very scary for the patients ... we did not know what happened,” he said. The health ministry said patients have since been transferred to three other hospitals in Gaza City, including Shifa, Al-Quds and the Red Crescent Field Hospital.
The aid group Medical Aid for Palestinians said this was the fifth attack on the hospital since the war began.
Medical facilities often come under fire in wars, but combatants usually depict such incidents as accidental or exceptional, since hospitals enjoy special protection under international law. In its 18-month campaign in Gaza, Israel has stood out by carrying out an open campaign on hospitals, besieging and raiding them, some several times, as well as hitting multiple others in strikes while accusing Hamas of using them as cover for its fighters.
Last month Israel struck Nasser Hospital in Khan Younis city, the largest in southern Gaza, killing two people and wounding others and causing a large fire, the territory’s health ministry said. The facility was overwhelmed with dead and wounded when Israel ended the ceasefire with a surprise wave of airstrikes.
Magdy reported from Cairo.
This report has been corrected to show the bodies of the killed Palestinians were to Red Crescent Field Hospital, not the Kuwait Field Hospital.
A relative mourn over the body of Abdullah Habbash before his funeral, along with six brothers from the Abu Mahadi family, all members of a Palestinian charity organization linked to Hamas, who were killed earlier in an Israeli army strike on the car they were traveling in, in Deir al-Balah, central Gaza Strip, Sunday, April 13, 2025. (AP Photo/Abdel Kareem Hana)"
Relatives mourn over the body of Abdullah Habbash before his funeral, along with the bodies of six brothers from the Abu Mahadi family, all members of a Palestinian charity organization linked to Hamas, who were killed earlier in an Israeli army strike on the car they were traveling in, in Deir al-Balah, central Gaza Strip, Sunday, April 13, 2025. (AP Photo/Abdel Kareem Hana)"
Relatives mourn over the body of Abdullah Habbash before his funeral, along with the bodies of six brothers from the Abu Mahadi family, all members of a Palestinian charity organization linked to Hamas, who were killed earlier in an Israeli army strike on the car they were traveling in, in Deir al-Balah, central Gaza Strip, Sunday, April 13, 2025. (AP Photo/Abdel Kareem Hana)"
Palestinians look at the wreckage of a car struck earlier by an Israeli army attack that killed at least seven people, six of them the Abu Mahadi brothers, in the outskirts of Deir al-Balah, central Gaza Strip, Sunday, April 13, 2025. (AP Photo/Abdel Kareem Hana)
Palestinians look at the wreckage of a car struck earlier by an Israeli army attack that killed at least seven people, six of them the Abu Mahadi brothers, in the outskirts of Deir al-Balah, central Gaza Strip, Sunday, April 13, 2025. (AP Photo/Abdel Kareem Hana)
The wreckage of a car struck earlier by an Israeli army attack that killed at least seven people, six of them the Abu Mahadi brothers, sits on the outskirts of Deir al-Balah, in the central Gaza Strip, Sunday, April 13, 2025. (AP Photo/Abdel Kareem Hana)
Relatives mourn over the bodies of Abdullah Habbash, along with the bodies of six brothers from the Abu Mahadi family, all members of a Palestinian charity organization linked to Hamas, who were killed earlier in an Israeli army strike on the car they were traveling in, in Deir al-Balah, central Gaza Strip, Sunday, April 13, 2025. (AP Photo/Abdel Kareem Hana)"
Palestinians pray over the bodie of Abdullah Habbash, along with the bodies of six brothers from the Abu Mahadi family, all members of a Palestinian charity organization linked to Hamas, who were killed earlier in an Israeli army strike on the car they were traveling in, during their funeral in Deir al-Balah, central Gaza Strip, Sunday, April 13, 2025. (AP Photo/Abdel Kareem Hana)"
Staff inspects a building of the Al-Ahli Arab Baptist hospital after it was targeted by an Israeli army strike late Saturday following a warning issued by the army to evacuate patients, in Gaza City, Sunday, April 13, 2025. (AP Photo/Jehad Alshrafi)
The outpatient and laboratory wards of the Al-Ahli Arab Baptist hospital are seen after being hit by an Israeli army strike late Saturday, following a warning issued by the army to evacuate patients, in Gaza City, Sunday, April 13, 2025. (AP Photo/Jehad Alshrafi)
The outpatient and laboratory wards of the Al-Ahli Arab Baptist hospital are seen after being hit by an Israeli army strike late Saturday, following a warning issued by the army to evacuate patients, in Gaza City, Sunday, April 13, 2025. (AP Photo/Jehad Alshrafi)
Palestinians carry for burial the bodies of Abdullah Habbash and six brothers from the Abu Mahadi family, members of a Palestinian charity organization linked to Hamas, who were killed earlier in an Israeli army strike on the car they were traveling in, in Deir al-Balah, central Gaza Strip, Sunday, April 13, 2025. (AP Photo/Abdel Kareem Hana)
The outpatient and laboratory wards of the Al-Ahli Arab Baptist hospital are seen after being hit by an Israeli army strike late Saturday, following a warning issued by the army to evacuate patients, in Gaza City, Sunday, April 13, 2025. (AP Photo/Jehad Alshrafi)
The outpatient and laboratory wards of the Al-Ahli Arab Baptist hospital are seen after being hit by an Israeli army strike late Saturday, following a warning issued by the army to evacuate patients, in Gaza City, Sunday, April 13, 2025. (AP Photo/Jehad Alshrafi)
A relative mourn over the body of Abdullah Habbash before his funeral, along with six brothers from the Abu Mahadi family, all members of a Palestinian charity organization linked to Hamas, who were killed earlier in an Israeli army strike on the car they were traveling in, in Deir al-Balah, central Gaza Strip, Sunday, April 13, 2025. (AP Photo/Abdel Kareem Hana)"
The outpatient and laboratory wards of the Al-Ahli Arab Baptist hospital are seen after being hit by an Israeli army strike late Saturday, following a warning issued by the army to evacuate patients, in Gaza City, Sunday, April 13, 2025. (AP Photo/Jehad Alshrafi)
Khalid Ahmad holds a poster of his 17-year-old son, Waleed, who died in an Israeli prison, that reads in Arabic, "The hero prisoner Martyr, mercy and eternity for our righteous Martyrs," in the West Bank town of Silwad, northeast of Ramallah Wednesday, March 26, 2025. (AP Photo/Nasser Nasser)
A woman holds a sign as people take part in a protest demanding the immediate release of hostages held by Hamas in the Gaza Strip, in Tel Aviv, Israel, Saturday, April 5,2025. (AP Photo/Ariel Schalit)
Palestinians wait for donated food at a distribution center in Nuseirat, central Gaza Strip, Friday, April 11, 2025. (AP Photo/Abdel Kareem Hana)
Palestinian children receive donated food at a distribution center in Nuseirat, central Gaza Strip, Friday, April 11, 2025. (AP Photo/Abdel Kareem Hana)
Displaced Palestinians flee from east to west of Gaza City after the Israeli military issued evacuation orders in the area, Friday April 11, 2025. (AP Photo/Jehad Alshrafi)
Displaced Palestinians flee from east to west of Gaza City after the Israeli military issued evacuation orders in the area, Friday April 11, 2025. (AP Photo/Jehad Alshrafi)
Two boys sit on a mattress as they ride on their family car while s fleeing from east to west of Gaza City after the Israeli military issued evacuation orders in the area, Friday April 11, 2025. (AP Photo/Jehad Alshrafi)
