STOCKSHOTS: construction site of 'the American hospital' near the Gaza-Israel border STOCKSHOTS of the construction site of a contentious field hospital nicknamed 'the American hospital', next to the Erez Israel-Gaza crossing. Volunteers with a US Christian charity group are building a contentious new field hospital on the Israel-Gaza border. The facility, to be located right next to a crossing into Israel, has rare joint support from the Jewish state and Gaza's Islamist rulers Hamas as part of an informal truce deal. STOCK SHOTS