The Israeli armed forces have besieged a hospital in the north of Gaza because they continue an offensive to confiscate the territory in strips, said the Ministry of Health led by Hamas.
The medical staff and the patients in the Indonesian hospital in Beit Lahia were under “heavy fire … the arrival of patients, medical staff and supplies”, the Ministry said on Sunday.
The Israel’s military has been terminating the start of “Operation Gideon’s Chariot” in the middle of the deadliest wave of strikes in Gaza on Saturday.
On Saturday, Hamas offered to publish nine hostages in exchange for a 60-day ceasefire.
The Ministry of Health said that three public hospitals are now “out of operation” in the North Gaza governorate.
At least 300 people have been killed since Thursday, also in hospitals and refugee camps in the north and south of the strip.
Strikes on Saturday met cities in the north of Gaza, including Beit Lahia and the Jabalia refugee camp as well as in the southern city of Khan Younis, said the Hamas Ministry of Health and civil protection forces.
Thousands have died since Israel has resumed strikes on March 18 after a fragile ceasefire that lasted two months.
The military of Israel said the expansion of its campaign aimed to “achieve all the goals of the war”, including the publication of the defeat of Hamas “.
Aid agencies say that the humanitarian situation of Gaza has also deteriorated, since Israel has been blocking food and other help by entering the area for 10 weeks.
The Israel Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu promised a great military escalation in the war at the beginning of this month to occupy and control the Gaza parts, to force the Palestinian population south of the territory and “destroy” Hamas.
Netanyahu said on May 5 that Israel had prepared an “intensive entry in Gaza” to grasp and maintain territory, but that he only begins until Trump completed his tour through the Middle East. He left the region on Friday.
The war was triggered by the attacks on South Israel led by the Hamas on October 7, 2023, in which around 1,200 people were killed and more than 250 hostages were taken.
Around 58 hostages remain in Gaza, which are assumed that they are alive.
More than 53,000 Palestinians were killed in Gaza during the Israeli military campaign.
