Israeli occupation forces set fire on Friday to Kamal Adwan Hospital in Beit Lahia in northern Gaza, which is the largest hospital in the area and serves over 400,000 citizens, Palestinian media reported.
According to the media reports, the Israeli occupation military forcibly evacuated patients, the injured, medical staff and journalists from the hospital, while simultaneously launching missile strikes and firing live ammunition at the facility.
The hospital is the only operational medical facility in northern Gaza that provided critical medical services to the community before being set ablaze.
The fire destroyed key departments, including operating rooms, the laboratory, the emergency unit and the ambulance services.
Communication with those inside the hospital was completely cut off after Israeli forces surrounded the building.
Reports indicate that the army ordered the approximately 350 people inside, including 170 medical staff, to gather in the courtyard in preparation for a military raid.
The Occupation forces forced the medical staff, as well as the patients and their companions to remove their clothes in the extreme cold and took them to an unknown location outside the hospital.
