GAZA: Zionist troops forced the evacuation of the Indonesian Hospital in northern Gaza and many patients, some of them on foot, arrived at another hospital miles away in Gaza City, the territory’s health ministry said on Tuesday. The Indonesian Hospital is one of the Gaza Strip’s few still partially functioning hospitals, on its northern edge, an area that has been under intense Zionist military pressure for nearly three months.

Palestinians accuse the Zionist entity of seeking to permanently depopulate northern Gaza to create a buffer zone. Munir Al-Bursh, director of the health ministry in the Gaza Strip, said the Zionist army had ordered hospital officials to evacuate it on Monday, before storming it in the early hours of Tuesday and forcing those inside to leave. He said two other medical facilities in northern Gaza, Al-Awda and Kamal Adwan Hospitals, were also subject to frequent assaults by Zionist troops.

Zionist forces have operated in the vicinity of the Kamal Adwan hospital since Monday, medics said. Officials at the three hospitals have refused orders by the Zionist entity to evacuate their facilities or leave patients unattended since the new military offensive began on Oct 5. Hussam Abu Safiya, director of the Kamal Adwan Hospital, said

they resisted a new order by the army to evacuate hundreds of patients, their companions and staff, adding that the hospital has been under constant Zionist fire that damaged generators, oxygen pumps and parts of the building.

Meanwhile, Zionist bombardment continued elsewhere in the enclave and medics said at least nine Palestinians, including a member of the civil emergency service, were killed in four separate military strikes on Tuesday. The Zionist campaign has since killed more than 45,200 Palestinians in Gaza. Most of the population of 2.3 million has been displaced and much of Gaza is in ruins. – Reuters