Mourners carry white sacks cover the bodies of members of the Abu Al-Rous family, killed when an Israeli airstrike struck their displacement tent overnight, during their funeral in Khan Younis, southern Gaza Strip, Thursday, April 17, 2025. AP/PTI(AP04_17_2025_000148B)
Deir Al-Balah (Gaza Strip), May 18 (AP) The Health Ministry in Gaza says that the main hospital serving people in the territory’s north has been forced to close because of escalating Israeli strikes and what it said was a siege of the facility.
The Indonesian Hospital was the last remaining functioning public hospital in the war-battered area. The Israeli military had no immediate comment on claims of fighting around the hospital.
Northern Gaza’s previous main hospital, Kamal Adwan, was forced to stop serving Palestinians last year because of Israeli strikes, as was a second facility, Beit Hanoun Hospital. (AP) PY PY
