Israeli troops storm north Gaza hospital

Palestinian Health Ministry official says Israeli forces have entered Kamal Adwan Hospital in northern Gaza after shelling it for days.

The health care system in Gaza is "completely collapsing" with overcrowded hospitals and few medical supplies amid the ongoing Israel-Hamas war, according to the World Health Organization and Doctors Without Borders.

Doctors Without Borders, or Médecins sans Frontières (MSF), was forced to stop providing support to Martyrs and Beni Suhaila clinics in southern Gaza more than a week ago due to evacuation orders from Israeli forces, it said in a statement Sunday.

"Israeli occupation forces are storming Kamal Adwan hospital after besieging and bombing it for days," ministry spokesman Ashraf al Qudra said in a statement.

Qudra said the troops were rounding up men in the hospital courtyard, including medical staff.

WHO chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said at the weekend that the UN health agency and its partners had managed to deliver essential trauma and surgical supplies to the Al-Ahli hospital and to transfer 19 critical patients.

But on Tuesday, he provided more details about the high-risk mission, saying on X, formerly Twitter, that the WHO was "deeply concerned about prolonged checks and detention of health workers that put lives of already fragile patients at risk".

The UN estimates 1.9 million of the territory's 2.4 million people have been displaced by the war, half of them children. Humanitarian leaders fear the besieged territory will soon be overwhelmed by disease and starvation.