Dozens of sufferers and about 3,000 displaced individuals are inside, UN says, as Gaza Well being Ministry requires worldwide assist.
Israeli forces have raided the Kamal Adwan Hospital in northern Gaza, after besieging and shelling it for a number of days, sources and the Palestinian Ministry of Well being mentioned.
Ashraf al-Qudra, a ministry spokesman, mentioned Israeli troops had been rounding up males and boys within the courtyard of the hospital in Beit Lahiya, together with medical employees, on Tuesday.
“We fear their arrest and the arrest of the medical teams or their killing,” he mentioned, calling for worldwide intervention.
“We call on the United Nations, the World Health Organization and the International Committee of the Red Cross to act immediately to save the lives of those in the hospital.”
Inside, there are sufferers, medical employees and hundreds of civilians who’ve taken refuge after being pressured to flee their houses.
Al Jazeera’s Hani Mahmoud, reporting from southern Gaza on Tuesday, mentioned the raid was happening “under heavy gunfire and artillery shelling”.
“Tanks pushed deeper at the gates and the entire facility is under heavy bombardment,” he mentioned. “Loudspeakers are being used to call anyone aged above 15 to come out of the building with their hands in the air.”
He added that Israeli forces who raided the ability additionally requested safety guards defending the hospital at hand over their weapons.
Kamal Adwan is the one remaining well being facility inside the northern a part of Gaza, our correspondent mentioned. “Over the last few days, it came under heavy bombardment and air strikes and tank shelling destroying the vast majority of its facilities, and all the major roads leading to it.”
Hospital ‘surrounded’
The United Nations humanitarian company OCHA mentioned two moms had been killed when the maternity division of Kamal Adwan was hit on Monday.
“The hospital remains surrounded by Israeli troops and tanks,” OCHA mentioned, including that the hospital was at the moment accommodating 65 sufferers, together with 12 kids within the intensive care unit and 6 newborns in incubators.
“About 3,000 internally displaced persons remain trapped in the facility and are awaiting evacuation with extreme shortages of water, food and power reported,” it added.
The state of affairs in Kamal Adwan is catastrophic, Leo Cans, Medical doctors With out Borders (MSF) head of mission for Palestine, advised Al Jazeera.
“We are outraged by what’s going on,” he mentioned, including that medics in Gaza had been working in situations similar to World Warfare I.
“We are operating on the floor. Children are arriving with very bad injuries, and [surgeons] have to do multiple operations but there are no more beds,” he mentioned.
Israeli troops have beforehand raided and evacuated different medical amenities in Gaza, together with the Indonesian Hospital and al-Shifa, the territory’s largest hospital.
The World Well being Group (WHO) says solely 11 out of 36 of Gaza’s hospitals stay partially practical and pleaded for them to stay intact.
“We cannot afford to lose any healthcare facilities or hospitals,” Rik Peeperkorn, WHO consultant for the occupied Palestinian territories, advised a UN press briefing by videolink from Gaza. “We hope, we plea that this will not happen.”
Greater than 18,000 Palestinians have been killed since Israel started its struggle on Gaza on October 7.
