Israeli forces raided northern Gaza's last hospital and detained its director as a purported Hamas suspect. U.N. officials say he must be freed immediately.

The Israeli military has launched a new offensive against alleged terrorist activity in northern Gaza, focusing on a hospital it says has been a “center of gravity” for Hamas

Both Israel and Hamas are under pressure from outgoing U.S. President Joe Biden and President-elect Donald Trump to reach a deal before the Jan. 20 inauguration.

The Hamas Movement called on the international community, the World Health Organization and the Red Cross to intervene immediately to halt Israel’s assault on what remains of Gaza’s healthcare system.

The Israel Defense Forces continues its intense airstrike and ground campaigns in Gaza, particularly in the north of the strip around several Palestinian hospitals.

Israeli forces detained more than 240 Palestinians including dozens of medical staff from a north Gaza hospital they raided on Friday, including its director, according to the Health Ministry in the enclave and Israel's military.

UN experts on Thursday denounced Israel's raid on an embattled hospital in northern Gaza, demanding an end to the "blatant assault" on health rights in the besieged Palestinian territory. "For well over a year into the genocide,

As the renewed clashes in the north of the enclave neared the three-month mark, there was no sign of them abating.

The Israeli military said Hamas militants were the targets of the strike on Gaza City's Al Wafa hospital, which the Palestinian civil defence said killed seven people.

Human rights groups have reported on cases of alleged torture and ill-treatment of medical staff from Gaza in Israeli detention.

Israel's military said on Saturday it had ended its raid on "a Hamas command centre" in a north Gaza hospital and detained its director as a suspected Hamas operative.It added that the hospital's director,

The Hamas Movement has called on the UN, the World Health Organization (WHO), the Red Cross, and human rights groups to exert maximum pressure on the Israeli occupation regime to unveil the fate of Dr.