One of the last partially functional health centres in besieged northern Gaza was hit several times overnight into Friday

Leaving four health workers among the casualties and the dead, according to the UN World Health Organization (WHO).

“All night, there was heavy bombing around the Kamal Adwan Hospital”, said Dr. Rik Peeperkorn, the UN health’s agency Representative for the Occupied Palestinian Territory.

Speaking from the enclave to journalists in Geneva via video, he reported that an Israel Defense Forces (IDF) tank was seen outside the hospital at around 4am on Friday, while people were told to move out the health centre.

“There was no official evacuation order,” he maintained, but instead, rumours and panic.

“People started to climb the wall to escape, and this panic attracted IDF fire. There are reports of deaths and arrests.”