An Israeli military raid on a hospital in Gaza has put the last major health facility in the besieged strip’s north out of service, exacerbating a deepening humanitarian crisis in the enclave, according to the UN’s health agency.

UN-branded vehicles are parked at the Kamal Adwan Hospital in Beit Lahia in the northern Gaza Strip as medics evacuate injured people and cancer patients on October 28, 2024, to al-Shifa hospital in Gaza City in a joint World Health Organisation and Palestinian Red Crescent initiative.

The Health Ministry in Gaza says Israel’s army has detained the director of one of the last functioning hospitals in northern Gaza

CAIRO − Israeli forces on Friday raided the Kamal Adwan Hospital, one of three medical facilities on the northern edge of Gaza, ordering dozens of patients and hundreds of others to evacuate and leaving part of the site on fire,

The Israeli military surrounded one of the last functioning hospitals in northern Gaza, ordering patients and staff to evacuate and remove their clothing, say eyewitnesses, as concern grows for patients and health workers that remain in the facility.

Israeli soldiers stormed and burned a hospital in isolated northern Gaza after forcibly removing staff and patients on Friday, Health Ministry officials said. The Israeli military said the hospital was being used by Hamas fighters as a base,

Israel’s offensive has virtually sealed off the northern Gaza areas of Jabaliya, Beit Hanoun and Beit Lahiya and leveled large parts of them. Tens of thousands of