Dr Mohammed Salha said patients were evacuated from al-Awda hospital in Jabalia on Thursday evening. He told the BBC "we are feeling really bad about this forced evacuation" after "two weeks of siege", saying there is now "no health facility working in the north". Israel has not yet commented, but the BBC has contacted the Israeli Defense Forces (IDF).

"We're really sad that we evacuated the hospital, but the Israeli occupation forces threatened us that if we didn't evacuate, they would enter and kill whoever is inside," Dr Salha said in a voice note to the BBC. "Or they would bomb the hospital. We were thinking of the lives of patients and our staff." Dr Salha told the BBC the hospital faced "a lot of bombing and shooting from the tanks" from around noon local time (09:00 GMT) on Thursday. He received a call from the Israeli forces at about 13:00 to evacuate, and initially refused because there were patients in need of healthcare. He offered to stay with another 10 of his staff and evacuate the others, but the military refused, he said. After seven hours of negotiations, the evacuation occurred at about 20:30. Staff carried patients more than 300 metres (984 feet) to ambulances parked far away from the hospital "because the roads are totally destroyed". Two videos sent to the BBC by al-Awda hospital staff show people, some wearing vests with the hospital's name on the back, boarding ambulances and a lorry to the east of the hospital courtyard at sunset, and a convoy of similar vehicles heading south through Jabalia after dark. "Due to impassable roads" the hospital's medical equipment could not be relocated, the World Health Organization (WHO) said. (BBC)