Wikipedia's article on the St John Eye Hospital Group, the ophthalmic charity descended from the Order of St John operating in Jerusalem and the West Bank, is a crowd sourced, not independently peer reviewed encyclopedia entry. It is reliable for standard identifying facts about its founding and operations, and less reliable for detailed clinical or financial claims, which the hospital's own reporting would need to settle.
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Reliability Tier3
Bare Wikipedia community article, tier 3, matching this corpus's settled precedent for this source class. NotesTertiary reference, read directly for this entry. States the hospital was established in 1882 by the Order of St John on Bethlehem Road south of Jerusalem's old city, that Queen Victoria granted it a royal charter, and that Sir Edmund Lechmere, 3rd Baronet, was instrumental in its founding after witnessing the region's need for eye care. States the Turkish Army seized the building for ammunition storage in the First World War and it sustained damage in the 1917 Battle of Jerusalem; that architect Clifford Holliday renovated and expanded it during the 1920s, completed 1930; that the 1948-1949 armistice forced a decade in temporary quarters on Muristan Street before the present Sheikh Jarrah building opened in 1960; and that mobile outreach began in 1980, a Gaza City clinic opened in 1992 and grew into a hospital in 2016, and satellite centres opened in Hebron in 2005 and Anabta in 2007. Reliability tier 3: a tertiary encyclopedia reference, used here only for uncontested founding-history detail that does not conflict with the organization's own Charity Commission filing.
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AuthorWikipedia contributors
PublisherWikimedia Foundation
URLhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St_John_Eye_Hospital_Group
Source Typeencyclopedia
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