Medical sources said that the Israeli forces are besieging Al Awda Hospital in Jabalia, north of the Gaza Strip, and treatment services cannot be provided to the injured and sick.

The sources added that the Israeli artillery bombed the hospital with several shells before surrounding it, preventing citizens and medical teams from entering or leaving it, which caused difficulty in providing treatment services to the injured and sick.

Press sources reported that the Israeli army bulldozed the vicinity of Al Awda Hospital.

On May 11, the Israeli forces announced the start of a massive attack on the city of Jabalia and its camp in the northern Gaza Strip, after asking residents to evacuate the area and head towards the west of Gaza City.

Since the beginning of the aggression, the Israeli army has deliberately disrupted the health system, by targeting hospitals in the Gaza Strip, including Al-Awda Hospital in the north, through direct threats of closure, and then targeting it with direct bombardment, destroying housing departments, operating rooms, the solar energy system, water and diesel stores, drug and medical gas warehouses, transport vehicles and ambulances and its medical supplies.

Al Awda Hospital is considered the only hospital that provides orthopedic, gynecological, and obstetrics services in the northern Gaza Strip, in addition to general surgery, reception, emergency, specialized clinics, radiology, and the laboratory.