Kamal Adwan Hospital director says five staff members killed in Israeli strike on facility, which military says is 'terrorist stronghold'; IDF says officer died Thursday in clash

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The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) launched a military operation near Kamal Adwan Hospital in Gaza on Friday. The operation targeted Hamas operatives and infrastructure based on intelligence reports. The action has rendered northern Gaza's last major health facility non-operational,

Deputy health minister Youssef Abu El-Rish alleged Israeli forces had torched the surgical department, laboratory, and storage areas of the hospital. Hundreds of evacuees, including 75 patients, were transferred to nearby shelters or the Indonesian Hospital, which had also sustained significant damage in earlier Israeli strikes.

The Israel Defense Forces reportedly evacuated staff from a hospital in northern Gaza before raiding it. Shaimaa Khalil with BBC News, a CBS News partner, has more on what's known about the attack.

Israeli forces raided the Kamal Adwan hospital on Friday, one of three medical facilities on the northern edge of the Gaza Strip, burning large sections and forcing dozens of patients and hundreds of others to leave,

At least 50 people have been killed in an Israeli airstrike targeting a building in the northern Gaza Strip, the Hamas-controlled health authority said late on Thursday. Among the victims were five staff members of a nearby clinic in Beit Lahia,