Israeli troops stormed one of the last hospitals operating in northern Gaza on Friday, igniting fires and forcing many staff and patients outside to strip in winter weather, the territory’s health ministry said.

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, health ministry officials said.

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.