Last Hospital in northern Gaza Evacuated after Israeli Order

The last hospital providing health services in the North Gaza inspection is out of service after the Israeli military ordered their immediate evacuation, the director of the facility said.

Dr. Mohammed Salh said that BBC patients were evacuated by Al-Avda Hospital in Jabalia on Thursday night after “two weeks of siege” and now there is no “there is no health facility working north.”

The Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) is yet to meet investigations.

It comes as the efforts continue to ensure that fire is stopped. Hamas says he “carefully reviews” the US plan that the White House said was “signed” by Israel.

US President Donald Trump said on Friday that he believes the deal was “very close”. But Hamas said the plan did not meet his main demands, including Israel’s commitment to ending war.

The deal is reported to include a 60 -day pause in the fight, with Hamas released 28 hostages – alive and dead – in the first week, with the remaining 30 hostages being released after there was a constant fire. More than 1,000 Palestinian prisoners will be released while humanitarian aid will be sent to Gaza through the United Nations and other agencies.

Israel continued its military operation on the territory – at least 72 people were killed in strikes in the last 24 hours, Gaza Health Ministry said on Friday.

On Thursday night, the Israeli military ordered the evacuation of the hospital, the director of the facility said.

In a voice note to the BBC, Dr. Salha said: “We are really sad that we have evacuated the hospital, but the Israeli occupation forces have threatened us that if we do not evacuate, they will enter and kill anyone inside.

“Or they would bomb the hospital. We were thinking about the lives of patients and our staff.”

Dr. Salha said that the hospital was confronted with “Many Bombings and Firing from Tanks” from about noon local time (09:00 GMT) on Thursday.

He received an appeal from the Israeli forces around 1:00 pm to evacuate and initially refused, as there are patients who need healthcare. He offered to stay with 10 of his employees and evacuate the others, but the military refused, he said.

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

The staff carried patients more than 300 meters (984 feet) to ambulances parked by the hospital as the surrounding roads were “completely destroyed”.

Two videos sent to the BBC by the staff of the Hospital in Al-Avda show people, some carry vests with the name of the hospital on the back, the ambulance board and the truck east of the courtyard of the sunset hospital and a convoy of similar vehicles aimed south through Jabalia after the dark.

Patients were evacuated to Al-Shifa Hospital in Gaza. Dr. Salha told the BBC that they would provide services through a primary health center in Gaza and said that another could be created in a shelter.

The CEO of the World Health Organization Tedros Adhanom Gebreyes said that the closure of Al-Avda means that there was no functional hospital in the management of people in North Gaza, “cutting a critical rescue line for people there.”

He also repeated the calls of civilians and healthcare workers, saying, “Hospitals should never be attacked or militarized.”

The Hospital in Al-Avda was in an evacuation zone, announced last week but is still functioning, its director said earlier.

IDF told the BBC last week that it was “operating in the area against terrorist purposes”, but that “is not aware of the siege of the hospital itself.”

A statement from 18 charity organizations on Thursday said the hospital was under military tax “for the fourth time since October 2023 and was struck at least 28 times”.

The emergency room was struck, injuring four employees, and the desire and storage unit was also struck, which led to the loss of all medicines, supplies and equipment, charity organizations said.

The UN Humanitarian Agency said there was – besides hospitals – only 61 of 158 primary health centers partially or fully functional in gas.

Nine of the 27 Health Centers of the UN Refugee Agency also operated. OCA did not announce how much, if any, the centers are in the North Gas inspection.

Israel began to allow a limited amount of assistance in Gaza last week after nearly a quarterly blockage stopped delivery of supplies, including food, medicines, fuel and shelter.

The scenes of chaos have erupted in the centers of distribution of assistance governed by the Humanitarian Gaza Foundation (GHF) – a group supported by the US and Israel.

The UN and many help groups refused to cooperate with GHF plans, which they believe contradict the humanitarian principles.

The head of doctors without borders (MSF), Christopher Lokier, called the plan “ineffective” and said that the most vulnerable had “almost no chance of access to supply.

GHF said he had spread six food trucks on Friday and plans to build additional sites, including in North Gaza, in the coming weeks.

Israel said it requires Gaza’s blockade to press Hamas to release the other hostages, at least 20 of whom are thought to be alive. He also accused Hamas of stealing help the group denies.

The UN condemned the robbery on Friday to large quantities of medical care at a field hospital in Central Gaza.

Stefan Duzarik, a spokesman for UN Secretary-General Antonio Guteres, said a group of “armed individuals” storming “warehouses at a field hospital in Deir al-Bala,” looting “for help for malnourished children.”

The UN Humanitarian Agency has again warned that the entire Gaza population is at risk of starvation, accusing Israel of blocked all other than a jet of help from entering the territory.

A UN -backed rating this month said 2.1 million Gaza people were exposed to a “critical risk” of starvation. UN Humanitarian Chief Tom Fletcher told the BBC people in the territory, which are subjected to “forced starvation” by Israel.

On Friday, a spokesman for Ocha, Jens Laerk, called Gaza the “most hungry place on earth”.

Israel is facing international pressure to allow more help.

French President Emmanuel Macron said on Friday that “we will have to harden our collective position” If Israel is not doing more “in the coming hours and days.

The Israeli Foreign Ministry struck on social media, saying that “there is no humanitarian blockade” and accused Macron of continuing a “crusade against the Jewish state.”

Some protesters in Israel tried to block Gaza’s assistance trucks, one saying that assistance should not be allowed until Hamas returns the hostages and accept the US termination provided by the United States.

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 251 others were hostage.

At least 54 321 people have been killed in Gaza ever since, including 4,058, since Israel resumed its offensive on March 18, according to Hamas’s health ministry.

Additional reporting from Naomi Scherbel-Ball and Alice Cuddy in Jerusalem. A check from Richard Ervine-Brown