Photo courtesy World Health Organization chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus's official page on X.
"Israeli forces have stormed and are present inside Kamal Adwan Hospital" in the city of Jabalia, AFP reported citing a ministry statement.
"They are detaining hundreds of patients, medical staff, and some displaced individuals from neighbouring areas who sought refuge in the hospital from continuous bombardment," it added.
The Israeli army and Shin Bet operatives had targeted the Kamal Adwan area, according to AFP.
Israeli forces had surrounded the hospital in Jabalia's refugee camp before entering the premises, AFP reported Gaza's civil defence agency as saying.
"More than 150 patients and staff, including medical and nursing teams, are besieged by the Israeli army inside Kamal Adwan Hospital in Jabalia Camp, northern Gaza Strip," Mahmoud Bassal, Gaza's civil defence agency spokesman, said.
World Health Organization Chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus described the situation as "deeply disturbing," noting that many patients and displaced were sheltering in the hospital.
"Kamal Adwan Hospital has been overflowing with close to 200 patients – a constant stream of horrific trauma cases. It is also full of hundreds of people seeking shelter," he said in a post on X.
Kamal Adwan is the last functioning hospital in Gaza's north.
The facility has been struggling with shortages since the start of Israel's war on Gaza, AFP reported, noting that the situation has been increasingly aggravated by the launch of an Israeli assault in northern Gaza earlier this month.
"There has been no supply or provision of food, medicine, or essential medical supplies needed to save the lives of the injured and sick in the hospital," Gaza's health ministry said, calling the situation inside "catastrophic in every sense of the word."
Hamas called the storming of Kamal Adwan "a war crime and a flagrant violation of international laws."
Jabalia, along with other parts of the Palestinian territory's north, have been subject to a sweeping military assault since 7 October that has seen Israel kill at least 770 people, according to Gaza's civil defence.
Israel's more-than-year-long war has killed at least 42,847 people in Gaza, mostly women and children, according to the Palestinian territory's health ministry.
Vast swathes of Gaza have been reduced to rubble amid Israel's massive air and ground invasion, displacing almost all of its civilian population of 2.4 million people at least once in the past year.
*This story was edited by Ahram Online.
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