Israeli troops withdraw from north Gaza hospital after counter-terror op

Israeli forces have reportedly withdrawn from the Kamal Adwan Hospital in the northern Gaza Strip, a day after the IDF said it was operating at the medical center amid “intelligence information on terrorists and terror infrastructure in the area.”

There is no comment from the IDF.

In the weeks before the operation, the military said it enabled the evacuation of patients and staff from the hospital, while also ensuring that the medical center’s emergency systems continued to function.

Kamal Adwan is the last functioning hospital in Gaza’s north. The facility said it has been struggling with shortages since the start of the war, which has been increasingly aggravated by the launch of an Israeli operation in northern Gaza earlier this month.

In recent months, the IDF has carried out dozens of operations and airstrikes on what it says are Hamas sites embedded within locations used as shelters for civilians, including hospitals, schools and UN facilities. It says it regularly takes steps to limit the harm to civilians by such operations.