Israel evacuates last functioning hospital in northern Gaza

The Palestinian Health Ministry in Gaza said in a statement Tuesday that Israeli forces are "intensifying" their attacks on three hospitals in the devastated and depopulated northern portion of the strip.

Israeli troops, the ministry in the Hamas-run territory said, are "besieging and directly targeting the Indonesian Hospital, Kamal Adwan Hospital and Al-Awda Hospital during the past hours and insisting on putting them out of service."

The ministry said Israeli troops were "forcing the wounded and patients to evacuate the Indonesian Hospital," while bombing "all departments of Kamal Adwan Hospital and its surroundings around the clock without stopping."

"Shrapnel is scattered inside the hospital yards, causing terrifying sounds and serious damage," the ministry said.

"We appeal to all international and UN institutions and concerned parties to urgently intervene to protect the health system in the Gaza Strip," the ministry wrote.

On Monday, Palestinian officials said 20 people were injured when Israeli forces detonated a "robot bomb" in the vicinity of Kamal Adwan Hospital.

The IDF has not commented on the latest developments around Kamal Adwan or the other north Gaza hospitals.

-ABC News' Nasser Atta

The Israel Defense Forces said Monday that three soldiers were killed in combat in northern Gaza.

Cpt. Ilay Gavriel Atedgi, 22, Staff Sgt. Netanel Pessach, 21, and Sgt. First Class (res.) Hillel Diener, 21, were all killed by an explosion during an operation in the Beit Hanoun area, which has been a focus of Israel's intense recent offensive in the northern part of the strip.

Israel's toll in the ground offensive against Hamas in Gaza and the border zone is now 391.

Health officials in the Hamas-run territory say more than 45,300 Palestinians have been killed in Gaza since Oct. 7, 2023.

-ABC News' Dana Savir and Ellie Kaufman

Twenty people were injured among the medical staff at Kamal Adwan Hospital in northern Gaza Monday evening after a "robot bomb" was detonated in the hospital’s vicinity, according to medical sources.

ABC News has reached out to the Israel Defense Forces for a comment.

-ABC News' Samy Zyara

Israeli forces killed the head of the national security directorate of Hamas' security mechanism during an attack on Sunday in Gaza City, the Israel Defense Forces said.

The Hamas operative, Tharwat Muhammad Ahmed Albec, was "operating in a command and control center" that was embedded in a "compound that previously served as the 'Musa bin Nusayr' school" in a neighborhood in Gaza City, the IDF said in a statement on Monday.

Hamas has yet to comment on the IDF's statement.

-ABC News' Dana Savir