The Palestinian Centre for Human Rights (PCHR) warns that hospitals in North Gaza are on the brink of a total collapse and might go out of service in such an utmost emergency and amid staggering and ongoing Israeli military operation entering its seventeenth consecutive day. On Saturday dawn, 19 October 2024, the Israeli Occupying Forces (IOF) deliberately bombed the upper floors of the Indonesian and al-‘Awda Hospitals and besieged the patients and medical personnel there at a time IOF have escalated their bombardment on the residential neighborhoods and civilian houses, destroying them on top of their residents.

PCHR warns of conducting deliberate attacks again on Gaza Strip’s hospitals and bombing them, inflicting fatalities among patients, medical personnel and displaced people in addition to imposing siege and forcibly evacuating them. Despite all efforts to rehabilitate partially some hospitals, IOF perpetuates once and again their attacks on them, leaving civilians with no hospitals for their treatment and thereby falling under the crime of genocide committed by IOF.