An Israeli air strike killed at least 13 people and wounded 75 in the Jabalia refugee camp in northern Gaza, the Health Ministry said. Ashraf Al Qudra, spokesman for the ministry in the Hamas-run territory, said that Al Awda Hospital in the Jabalia area had been turned “into a barracks” by the Israeli army. He added that the army was holding 240 people in the hospital, “including 80 medical staff and 40 patients”, and had arrested its director, Dr Ahmad Mhanna.

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