The director of Al-Ahli Hospital, Fadel Naeem, announced that the hospital had stopped working, today, Tuesday, after the Israeli army stormed it. The Ministry of Health in the Gaza Strip also announced, Tuesday evening, that the Ahli Baptist Hospital in Gaza City was out of service, which was the last hospital operating in the city in light of the devastating Israeli war.

Ministry spokesman Dr. Ashraf Al-Qudra, in a brief statement: “The National Arab (Baptist) Hospital in Gaza has been out of service, as a result of the targeting, siege, and arrest of a number of medical personnel, the wounded, and the displaced.”

The Arab National Hospital (Baptist) was the only one still operating in Gaza City following the Israeli army's siege of the Shifa Medical Complex.

The Israeli army surrounded the hospital and arrested a number of doctors, nurses, and the wounded, according to what he told Agence France-Presse.

Naeem explained, "The hospital was out of service due to the occupation forces storming the hospital, and we cannot receive patients or injured people. We have reports of dozens of wounded people in the streets."

Naeem added: “Four citizens died as a result of the wounds they sustained yesterday,” on Monday.

On October 17, a bombing occurred in the courtyard of the Arab National Hospital, killing dozens. The Israeli army and Palestinian factions exchanged accusations of responsibility for the bombing, which sparked international condemnation and protests.

All health facilities in the Gaza Strip were severely damaged as a result of the bombing and ground operations carried out by the Israeli army since the unprecedented attack launched by Hamas on October 7.

On the other hand, the spokesman for the Ministry of Health in the Gaza Strip, Ashraf Al-Qudra, confirmed that the Israeli army had converted Al-Awda Hospital in the northern Gaza Strip into a “military barracks,” noting that “240 people were detained, including 80 medical staff and 40 patients.”

Al-Qudra confirmed the arrest of six hospital officials, including its director, Dr. Ahmed Muhanna.

The Ministry of Health in Gaza confirmed in a statement today: “We are surprised by the international silence when it sees the massacres committed by the Israeli occupation forces in northern Gaza in light of the lack of health services as a result of the destruction of hospitals and putting them out of service, which means the occupation’s insistence on genocide.”

The World Health Organization said on Sunday that the National Arab Hospital is the only hospital that is “partially operating” at the present time in the entire northern Gaza Strip, with only three hospitals operating on a limited basis: Al-Shifa, Al-Awda, and Al-Sahaba.

Before the war, there were 24 hospitals in this area.