The Israeli occupation army demands that the administration of Al-Awda Hospital in northern Gaza evacuate it.

Al-Awda Hospital in the northern Gaza Strip announced Thursday that the Israeli occupation army had demanded that its management evacuate the hospital immediately before it began detonating explosive robots in its vicinity.

The hospital administration said in a statement, "After the Israeli occupation issued a decision to evacuate the hospital, it detonated explosive robots in its vicinity."

The statement added that this came "in conjunction with intense gunfire targeting hospital buildings and facilities, in an attempt to intimidate and destabilize medical staff and wounded inside the hospital."

He pointed out that "97 people are still inside the hospital, including 13 patients and injured people, and 84 medical personnel."

For more than a week, the Israeli occupation forces have been besieging Al-Awda and Al-Indonesian hospitals in the northern Gaza Strip, targeting anyone moving inside them, in an escalation against medical personnel and hospitals as part of a war of extermination.

Last Thursday, the army targeted a medicine warehouse inside Al-Awda Hospital, sparking a fire at the site. A booby-trapped robot detonated in the vicinity, causing extensive damage, according to a brief statement posted by the hospital administration on Telegram.

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 refugee camp. Despite its limited resources due to the Israeli 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 Israeli military has targeted Gaza's hospitals and healthcare system, putting most of them out of service, endangering the lives of patients and the wounded, according to Palestinian and UN data.

The Gaza Strip has been suffering from a catastrophic humanitarian and relief crisis since Israel closed the crossings on March 2, preventing the entry of food, medicine, aid, and fuel, while its military escalates its genocidal campaign against the Palestinian population of the territory.

With full American support, Israel has been committing genocidal crimes in Gaza since October 7, 2023, leaving more than 177,000 Palestinians dead or wounded, most of them children and women, and more than 11,000 missing, in addition to hundreds of thousands displaced.

Israel has been blockading the Gaza Strip for 18 years, leaving approximately 1.5 million Palestinians out of a population of approximately 2.4 million homeless after their homes were destroyed in the war of extermination. The Strip is suffering from a severe famine due to Israel's closure of crossings to humanitarian aid.