Al-Awda Hospital in Gaza appeals for intervention to extinguish a fire that broke out in the medicine warehouse.

The administration of Al-Awda Hospital in northern Gaza appealed to UN agencies on Friday to intervene to extinguish a fire that has been raging in the medicine warehouse since Thursday, as a result of Israeli shelling.

The administration called on the International Committee of the Red Cross, the World Health Organization, and relevant UN institutions to intervene immediately.

She also called for urgent coordination with the Civil Defense in Gaza to re-direct the wounded to Al-Awda Hospital in the Tal al-Zaatar area of Jabalia camp.

She confirmed that the fire "is still burning in the hospital's drug warehouse," warning that its continuation "threatens the health disaster and threatens the lives of patients and medical staff."

On Thursday, the Al-Awda Hospital administration announced that the Israeli occupation forces had targeted the hospital's medicine warehouse, sparking a fire at the site. As part of the deliberate targeting of the hospital, the occupation forces detonated a booby-trapped robot in its vicinity, causing extensive damage.

Al-Awda Hospital is a private medical facility operating in the Gaza Strip. It has two branches, one in the central Gaza Strip and the other in Jabalia camp. Despite its limited resources due to the blockade and genocide, it continues to provide limited care to patients and the injured.

Since launching its war of extermination on the Gaza Strip on October 7, 2023, the occupation has deliberately targeted Gaza's hospitals and healthcare system, putting most of them out of service, endangering the lives of patients and the wounded.

The Gaza Strip has been suffering from a catastrophic humanitarian and relief crisis since the occupation authorities closed the crossings on March 2, preventing the entry of food, medicine, aid, and fuel.

Since October 7, 2023, the Israeli occupation has been committing genocidal crimes in the Gaza Strip, leaving more than 175,000 dead and wounded, most of them children and women, and more than 11,000 missing, in addition to hundreds of thousands displaced.