Israeli forces raided the Kamal Adwan Hospital, one of only three medical facilities on the northern edge of the Gaza Strip, on Friday, ordering dozens of patients and hundreds of others to evacuate the compound,

Staff at a hospital in northern Gaza say the building has been surrounded by Israeli forces and they are being ordered to evacuate along with all patients, after reports of a nearby airstrike that the local health ministry said killed about 50 people.

Eid Sabbah, head of the nursing department at Kamal Adwan hospital, told the BBC that at about 07:00 on Friday, the military gave the administration 15 minutes to evacuate patients and staff into its courtyard.

Israeli forces have reportedly stormed northern Gaza’s Kamal Adwan Hospital and forced out all the patients and staff who were there.

At least 50 people were killed in an Israeli airstrike on the city of Beit Lahia in the northern part of the Gaza Strip, as reported by the Palestinian Ministry of Health, which is controlled by Hamas,

Five staff at one of northern Gaza's last functioning hospitals were killed by an Israeli strike on Thursday, the facility's director said, more than two months into an Israeli operation in the area.