The Israeli army has turned the Al-Awda hospital in the northern Gaza Strip into a military barracks, the health ministry in the besieged Palestinian enclave said on Tuesday.
Ministry spokesman Ashraf al-Qudra said the Israeli army is holding 240 Palestinians, including 80 health workers, 40 patients and 120 displaced people in the hospital.
He said that Palestinians inside the hospital are without water, food and medicine, adding that the Israeli army is preventing movement between hospital units.
Al-Qudra said Israeli forces arrested six health workers, including Ahmed Muhanna, the hospital’s director, and one patient.
Israel launched an aerial and ground bombardment of the Gaza Strip, imposed a siege and launched a ground offensive in retaliation for a cross-border attack by Hamas on October 7th.
According to Gaza health authorities, at least 19,453 Palestinians have been killed and 52,286 injured in Israeli attacks since then.
E.Dz.
