A Palestinian medical official announced today (Thursday) that the Israeli army has warned the Indonesian hospital in the northern Gaza Strip to evacuate within four hours, at a time when Israeli air and artillery attacks continue in the vicinity of the hospital.

Director of the Ministry of Health in Gaza, Munir Al-Bursh, told reporters that the Israeli army warned that the Indonesian hospital would be evacuated within four hours, while “the bombardment around the hospital continues from all sides.”

Al-Bersh pointed out that there are about 65 bodies in the hospital and it is still difficult to remove them for burial, pointing out that 450 patients were guaranteed to leave the hospital yesterday, while about 200 remain currently.

Violent raids were reported on the Indonesian Hospital and its surroundings in Beit Lahia, north of Gaza, yesterday, which led to the surgical department being hit.

According to the United Nations, the bed capacity throughout Gaza has decreased from 3,500 beds before the war to 1,400 beds at the present time, amid an increase in the number of people seeking treatment.

According to the World Health Organization, only one of the hospitals currently operating in the Gaza Strip has the capacity to treat critical trauma cases or perform complex surgical operations.

In this context, the spokesman for the Ministry of Health in Gaza, Ashraf Al-Qudra, announced in press statements that the Israeli army arrested the director of Al-Shifa Medical Complex, Muhammad Abu Salamiya, and a number of doctors, without further details.

On the ground, Palestinian medical sources reported that 5 people were killed in an Israeli bombing that targeted a house this morning in the Nuseirat camp in the central Gaza Strip.

The sources told Xinhua News Agency that 15 people were killed, and a number of others were reported missing, in Israeli raids that targeted five homes east of Khan Yunis, south of the Gaza Strip.

In the city of Deir al-Balah in the central Gaza Strip, paramedics reported recovering at least three dead and a number of injuries in an Israeli bombing that targeted an inhabited house.

This comes as intense ground clashes continued between Israeli forces and armed Palestinian factions in and around Gaza City, as well as in several other areas in the north, especially Jabalia.

Air strikes and shelling by Israeli forces also continued in multiple areas across Gaza. Israeli ground forces maintained the effective separation between north and south along the Gaza Valley, except for the "corridor" leading to the south.