The Ministry of Health in the Gaza Strip announced today, Tuesday, that the Israeli army stormed Kamal Adwan Hospital in the northern Gaza Strip and detained the hospital director, Ahmed Al-Kahlot, and all the medical staff, before taking dozens of health personnel “to an unknown destination outside the hospital.”

The ministry said this evening that “the Israeli occupation forces arrested the director of Kamal Adwan Hospital and took him to an unknown destination outside the hospital,” adding that “the occupation forces released 5 doctors as well as women health personnel, and took more than 70 health personnel outside the hospital to a destination.” "Unknown."

It stated, "The occupation forces asked the remaining cadres to gather all patients and staff in one building, and to evacuate the other buildings."

It added that "in addition to medical personnel, there are 65 wounded and 12 sick children in children's care, without electricity, water, or food."

The ministry added: "We fear that the Israeli occupation will create a new lie and narrative, which it will use as a pretext to commit crimes and destroy the hospital."

The Hamas movement said, "The Zionist occupation army's storming of Kamal Adwan Hospital is a desperate attempt to force our people to leave the north after its repeated failure."

“The occupation arrested a group of men from the medical staff.”

A nurse at the hospital said in statements she made to Al Jazeera, “The occupation arrested a group of men from the medical staff and is detaining them in the hospital courtyard.”

It stated that "only 8 nurses deal with the hospital's 65 patients, in addition to 12 children and 5 premature infants." The nurse pointed out that "the occupation is surrounding the hospital from all sides and tanks are at the doors."

It stressed that "there is no Palestinian gunman in the hospital, and we only deal with patients."

On December 5, the Ministry of Health in Gaza announced that the Israeli forces penetrating the northern Gaza Strip had taken Kamal Adwan Hospital out of service “by force, terrorism, and tank nozzles.”

Palestinian medical sources reported on the same day that the Israeli army bombed with artillery and drones the vicinity of Kamal Adwan Hospital, which led to “the fall of martyrs and the outage of its electricity,” according to the official Wafa news agency.

The Israeli army is escalating its targeting of all hospitals in the Gaza Strip, coinciding with a devastating war it is waging on Gaza, which, as of Tuesday evening, has left 18,412 dead, 50,100 injured, most of them children and women, massive destruction of infrastructure, and an “unprecedented humanitarian catastrophe,” according to the statement. Palestinian official sources.