About 500 patients and doctors of the Indonesian Hospital, The northern Gaza Strip, the site of attacks and fighting in recent days, was evacuated on Tuesday as part of a new operation coordinated by humanitarian agencies, the UN’s daily report on the conflict said.

The evacuation took place the day after attack on a hospital center left at least 12 people dead noted the report of the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, prepared several hours before the announcement of a four-day truce in the conflict between Israel and Hamas.

The hospital “remains surrounded by Israeli troops and tanks.” the United Nations stressed, highlighting that only two small hospitals in the northern half of the Gaza Strip out of 24 remain operational.

In the south of the strip, in an area where Gaza civilians have been ordered to evacuate (although it is also being bombed by Israel), seven out of 11 hospital facilities are operating– the UN noted, recalling that the number of hospital beds in Palestinian territory has decreased from 3,500 before the conflict to 1,400.

Attacks on hospitals, which Israeli forces say are used as safe havens by Hamas militant groups, have continued over the past 24 hours. In one of them, against the center of Al-Audh, four doctors were killed, as Doctors Without Borders reported Tuesday.

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To date, the World Health Organization (WHO) has documented 178 attacks on medical facilities in Gaza, at least 22 people were killed and 48 injured among medical workers in the line of duty.

The UN recalls that 1.7 million people have fled their homes due to the conflict. More than three-quarters of Gaza’s population: about 930,000 live in schools and other UN Refugee Agency (UNRWA) centers, and 770,000 in the southern part of the strip.

During the evacuation of the north-south strip ordered by Israel, it was proven that large number of unaccompanied minors and families in which parents and children are forcibly separated, the report highlights.

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The document also recalls that At least 53 journalists were killed during the conflict. two of them earlier this week.

(EFE)