The last hospital in Northern Gaza Governor evacuated after Israel’s order

The latest hospital providing medical services in the governorship with Northern Gaza is out of operation after the Israeli military has ordered an immediate evacuation, the hospital director said.

Dr. Mohammed Salha said patients were evacuated from al-Auda Hospital on Thursday night.

He said the BBC: “We feel very bad about this forced evacuation” after “two weeks of siege”, saying that “there is no medical facility working in the north.”

Israel has not yet commented on, but the BBC has contacted Israeli Defense Forces (IDF).

“We are very sad that we evacuated the hospital, but the Israeli occupation forces threatened us that if we did not evacuate, they would enter and kill the one inside,” D -salha said in the voice note.

“Or they bomb the hospital. We thought about the life of patients and our staff.”

Salha D -R -Salha told the BBC that a lot of bombing and shooting from the south (9:00 GMT) faced in the hospital.

He called Israeli troops around 13:00 for evacuation and initially refused because there were patients in need of healthcare. He offered to stay with another 10 of his employees and evacuate the rest, but the military refused, he said.

After seven hours of the negotiations, the evacuation took place around 8:30 pm.

The staff transported patients more than 300 meters (984 feet) so that the ambulances are parked far from the hospital “because the roads are completely destroyed.”

Two videos sent to the BBC Hospital by Al-Awda show people, some wore vests with the name of the hospital on the back, at the landing of the ambulance and truck east of the hospital court at the sunset, and the convoy of a similar vehicle headed south through Jabalia after the darkness.

“Out of impassable roads” the hospital’s medical equipment could not be crossed, the World Health Organization (WHO) said.

The UN Humanitarian Agency said Ochi said that “the hostilities” have been “continuing” over the last two weeks damaged the hospital, thwarted access and created panic, scaring people from finding assistance. ”

Patients were evacuated to al-Shiff hospital in Gaza.

Salha’s D -R said BBC that they would provide services through the Primary Health Center in Gaza, and said that another can be created in the shelter.

Tedros went away Gebreyz, CEO of the WHO, said the closure of al-Uda meant that there was no Northern Gaza Governorate that there was no hospital that works. ”

“Who asks for protection and security at the hospital and the security of patients, as well as repeating the call for active protection of civilians and health care,” he said. “Hospitals should never attack and militarize.”

IDF ordered the evacuation of al-Atatra districts, Jabalia al-Bollad, Shuja, Al-Pedoj and Al-Tethun on Thursday night, Avichi Avichi, a social media spokesman said at the time.

“Terrorist organizations continue their sabotage activity in the region, and therefore IDF will expand its offensive activity in the areas where you are present to destroy the possibilities of terrorist organizations,” he said.

“From now on, these areas will be considered a dangerous fight.”

The al-Uda Hospital was in the evacuation area announced last week, but still worked, its director said.

A statement by 18 charity organizations said on Thursday that in the fourth section was in the hospital, “” for the fourth time since October 2023 and was impressed at least 28 times. ”

As a result of the ambulance, the trauma center was injured, injuring four employees, and the plant also struck the factory, which led to the loss of all medicines, materials and equipment, said in charity organizations.

Last week, IDF reported the BBC that “acted in the area against targeted terror” but “did not know about the siege at the hospital itself.”

In addition to hospitals, some primary medical centers are still working in Gaza, 61 of 158 partly or fully functional as of May 18, said Och.

Nine of the 27 UN Palestinian Refugee Health Centers were also operating.

OCHA did not report how much, if any, the centers were in the governorship in Northern Gaza.

Israel continues the bombing of gas, which most Palestinians cannot leave now, after a two -month ceasefire earlier this year.

Over the past day, 72 people were killed, the Ministry of Health said on Friday.

Last week, Israel began to allow limited assistance to the gas after almost three -month blockade stopped deliveries, including food, medicine, fuel and shelter.

The chaos scenes escaped at the center of assistance, controlled by the US Humanitarian Fund and the Israeli Group.

The UN and many assistance groups refused to cooperate with GHF plans, which, according to them, are contrary to humanitarian principles.

General Secretary of the Doctors Without Borders (MSF), Christopher Lokier called the plan “ineffective” and said that the most vulnerable “virtually no chance” to access supplies.

On Friday, GHF said he handed out six food trucks and plans to build additional sites, including in Northern Gaza for a few weeks.

Israel said the gas blockade to put pressure on Hamas to release the rest of the hostages, at least 20 of which are believed to be alive. He also accused Hamas of theft of assistance that the group denies.

This month does not support the estimate that 2.1 million gases are undergoing “critical risk” of hunger. The UN Gumanitarian Chief Tom Fletcher said the residents of the BBC were being “forced hunger” in the territory.

On Friday, a press secretary of the UN Humanitarian Agency, Jensa Lerc, called the gas “the most hungry place on Earth.”

Israel faces international pressure to allow more assistance.

French President Emmanuel Macron said on Friday: “We will have to harden our collective position” if Israel does not make more “in the coming hours and days.”

The Israeli Foreign Ministry returned to social media, saying that there was no humanitarian blockade and accused Macron of continuing the “Crusade against the Jewish state”.

Some participants of the action in Israel Tried to lock The trucks from the gas entry assistance, one say that the help should not be allowed until Hamas returns the hostage or accept the US ceasefire.

The Hamas spokesman said the group “conducts a careful and responsible review of” proposals, but it “does not meet” their requirements.

Israel launched a military campaign in Gaza in response to Hamas’s cross -border attack on October 7, 2023, which killed about 1,200 people and took 251 people hostage.

At least 54,321 people were killed in Gaza, including 4,058 since Israel resumed its offensive on March 18, the Ministry of Health reports.

Additional report by Naomi Sherbel-Bal and Ellis Caddy in Jerusalem. Checking Richard Irwin-Braun