<div><span style="font-size: 1rem;"><b>The health ministry in the Hamas-run Gaza Strip said Israeli forces were raiding a hospital today in the north of the Palestinian territory.</b></span><br></div><div><br></div><div>“Israeli occupation forces are storming Kamal Adwan hospital after besieging and bombing it for days,” ministry spokesman Ashraf al-Qudra said in a statement.</div><div><br></div><div>The Israeli military did not immediately respond to an AFP request to comment.</div><div><br></div><div>Qudra said the troops were rounding up men in the hospital courtyard, including medical staff.</div><div><br></div><div>“We fear their arrest and the arrest of the medical teams or their killing,” the health ministry spokesman added, calling for international intervention.</div><div><br></div><div>The United Nations humanitarian agency Ocha said two mothers were killed when the maternity department of Kamal Adwan hospital was reportedly hit yesterday.</div><div><br></div><div>“The hospital remains surrounded by Israeli troops and tanks, and fighting with armed groups has been reported in its vicinity for three consecutive days,” Ocha said.</div><div><br></div><div>It said the hospital was “currently accommodating 65 patients, including 12 children in the intensive care unit and six newborns in incubators”.</div><div><br></div><div>“About 3,000 internally displaced persons remain trapped in the facility and are awaiting evacuation with extreme shortages of water, food and power reported,” it added.</div><div><br></div><div>Israeli troops have previously raided other medical facilities in Gaza, including Al-Shifa, the territory’s largest hospital.</div><div><br></div><div>There is currently only one hospital in northern Gaza able to admit patients, according to the UN.</div><div><br></div><div>Just 13 of 36 hospitals across the territory are functioning, providing limited healthcare while sheltering thousands of displaced people.</div><div><br></div><div>More than 18,200 Gazans have been killed and nearly 50,000 wounded since the war between Israel and Hamas erupted more than two months ago, according to the health ministry.</div><div><br></div><div>Around 1,200 people were killed in an unprecedented attack by Hamas on southern Israel on Oct 7, Israeli officials say, which sparked the blistering military response on Gaza.</div><div><br></div><div>The majority of war casualties in Israel and Gaza have been civilians. According to AFP reports&nbsp;</div><div><br></div><div>bnbd24/fas</div>