Muhammad Saleh, director of Al Awda Hospital in Gaza’s Jabalia, has said Israeli shelling in the vicinity damaged the facility, wounding seven medics and one patient inside the hospital.

The Israeli military had no immediate comment, Reuters said.

In the Central Gaza camp of Bureij, Palestinian families began leaving some districts after the army posted new evacuation orders on X and in written and audio messages to mobile phones of some of the population there, citing new firing of rockets by Palestinian fighters from the area.

 A bed is damaged inside Kamal Adwan hospital, during the ongoing Israeli military operation, in Beit Lahiya, in the northern Gaza Strip on Dec 18, 2024. — Reuters/Stringer
A bed is damaged inside Kamal Adwan hospital, during the ongoing Israeli military operation, in Beit Lahiya, in the northern Gaza Strip on Dec 18, 2024. — Reuters/Stringer

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