GAZA STRIP (Dispatches) -- Medical staff at the Kamal Adwan Hospital in Gaza were burned alive when Israeli forces set fire to it on Friday, reports said on Saturday, citing medical sources.
They said some people had fled the hospital, located in the Beit Lahia project in northern Gaza, and walked dozens of kilometers to Gaza City.
They said that as a result of the fire which Israeli forces started, some people had died in the hospital and their bodies had been burnt as a result.
Zionist forces set fire to the hospital and stormed it on Friday, ordering medical staff and patients to leave. They had been besieging and attacking the facility – the last remaining hospital operating in northern Gaza – for weeks.
The Palestinian news agency WAFA reported that around 350 people inside, including 170 medical staff, were ordered to gather in the hospital’s courtyard by the Israeli army.
Dozens of staff, including the hospital’s director, Hossam Abu Safiyeh, were detained by Israel and taken for interrogation.
Israeli television broadcast a clip showing the emptying of the hospital from “suspects”. It showed men who had been stripped of their clothing with their hands of their air, being led away under the threat of fire from an armored vehicle.
Shurouq al-Rantisi, a nurse at the hospital, told Al-Jazeera that Israeli forces beat the detained hospital staff after burning it and deliberately humiliated them.
Reports said that around 30 patients from Kamal Adwan reached the Indonesian Hospital, which has also been closed by Israeli forces, in critical condition.
With the destruction of the Kamal Adwan Hospital, there is no remaining functioning hospital in northern Gaza.
The Zionist regime has attacked the hospital for weeks, killing patients and staff, including doctors. It has imposed an intensified siege on the north of the Gaza Strip accompanied by ferocious attacks which kill dozens of people every day.
It is believed to be implementing a scheme known as the “General’s Plan” designed to kill, starve, or expel the area’s remaining inhabitants.
Commenting on the destruction of the Kamal Adwan Hospital, UN Special Rapporteur Francesca Albanese blamed Israel’s western allies for their continued support.
“Israel is writing one of the darkest pages in the history of genocides, with ‘Made in the West’ ink,” she wrote on the social media platform X.
The Zionist regime has so far martyred at least 45,436 people, injured over 100,000 more, and displaced the vast majority of Gaza’s population in its brutal campaign against the territory, which is now in its 15th month. 
Latest health ministry figures showed Israeli forces had killed 48 Palestinians in Gaza and injured 52 across the besieged enclave.
The Times of Israel is reporting that the Zionist regime has “vastly expanded” its army bases in the centre of Gaza and is preparing to stay in the strip indefinitely. 
Dubbed by Zionist forces as the Netzarim corridor, the Times of Israel said the army had established more than a dozen army bases and demolished whole villages in the area to create these bases. 
During an escorted visit with the Israeli army, army officials told the Times of Israel it was expanding its operations in the centre of Gaza and said it “necessary” to demolish hundreds of homes in the area.
The Israeli newspaper added that the military bases “featured everything one would expect at a well-entrenched position for troops to remain indefinitely, except that nothing seemed to be permanently attached to the ground.”
The United Nations’ World Food Program (WFP) warned on Saturday that more than two million Palestinians in Gaza were without food, shelter and water.
At least two rockets were fired from the Gaza Strip towards Occupied Al-Quds on Saturday, according to Israeli media. 
This is the first time long-range missiles have been fired from Gaza in months.