Contact with staff and patients at Gaza's Kamal Adwan Hospital lost after Israeli raid

The Palestinian health ministry said that contact with medics inside the Kamal Adwan hospital has been lost completely since Israeli soldiers stormed the facility on Friday.

Israeli troops raided the hospital in Beit Lahia, set parts of it ablaze and ordered dozens of staff and patients to leave. 

"The occupation forces are inside the hospital now and they are burning it," health ministry director Munir Al-Bursh said in a statement.

Videos and eyewitness testimony shared with Middle East Eye on Friday showed Israeli forces forcing semi-naked Palestinian medics and patients to leave on foot to an unknown destination.