Patients stranded as Northern Gaza’s last hospitals shut down

All hospitals in Northern Gaza have ceased operations after days of intense Israeli assaults, leaving hundreds of patients and displaced people with no access to life-saving care. Israeli tanks entered the courtyard of Al Awda Hospital at dawn on Thursday, firing shells that hit the surgery wing, said Dr Raafat Al Majdalawi,, director general of the Al Awda Health and Community Association. Gaza’s Indonesian Hospital – the only other infirmary that was still offering services in the north – was forced to shut earlier this week.