GAZA, January 3, 2025 (WAFA) – Israeli occupation forces Friday evening threatened to shell al-Awda Hospital in Jabalia refugee camp in the northern Gaza Strip.

The occupation forces threatened to bomb the hospital and issued a forced removal order of 96 patients and medical personnel, demanding everyone be cleared out immediately. Otherwise, the occupation forces would bomb the hospital.

This would deny 40,000 Palestinians from healthcare services in the northern Strip.

Meanwhile, Israeli army drones fired flare bombs at the hospital’s Reception and Emergency Section, injuring several medical personnel, at a time when Israeli artillery continued to shell the hospital yard and gates.

Al-Awda Hospital is considered the last remaining operational hospital in the northern Strip and continues to be besieged by the occupation forces for 90 days.

The Israeli military, as reported by Middle East Eye, intensified its offensive on northern Gaza on 5 October after a controversial proposal named the "Generals' Plan" was presented to the Israeli government.

The plan said areas north of the Netzarim Corridor, which cuts Gaza in two, should be emptied of its residents so Israel could establish a "closed military zone".

According to the plan, anyone who chose to stay would be considered a Hamas operative and could be killed.

Since launching the plan, Israeli forces have been accused of exacerbating starvation and malnutrition to ethnically cleanse Palestinians, with Oxfam reporting in late December that only 12 aid trucks had made it into northern Gaza this month.

K.F.