In northern Gaza, what remains of a collapsing health system faces yet another blow. Israeli forces have issued a sudden evacuation order for Al-Awda Hospital in Tel Al-Zaatar, leaving over 160 people, patients, doctors, and nurses in limbo, with no safe corridor or destination provided.

Inside the hospital, 97 individuals remain trapped: 13 patients and 84 medical staff, according to local sources. The evacuation order comes amid intensifying assaults. Witnesses say Israeli troops detonated explosives near the hospital and fired heavily on its buildings, seemingly aiming to terrify those inside into fleeing, despite nowhere left to run.

Al-Awda is only the latest target. The nearby Indonesian Hospital has been under total siege since 18 May, while Kamal Adwan Hospital continues to face repeated raids. These assaults are part of a broader pattern: since the start of the war, hospitals across Gaza have been marked as enemy strongholds by Israeli authorities accusations largely unsubstantiated and increasingly contested by international observers.

For Palestinians in northern Gaza, hospitals are no longer places of refuge. They have become frontlines in a war that continues to erase the last vestiges of civilian life and dignity.