More than one hundred and fifty patients and staff are trapped at the Kamal Adwan Hospital in Beit Lahiya as theIsraeli military besieges the medical facility.

Israeli forces raided the hospital in northern Gaza today and ordered patients to move down to the main courtyard as they conducted mass arrests.

The raid came a day after Israeli tanks shelled the compound of the hospital, one of the few remaining functioning medical facilities in the north of the enclave.