Third northern Gaza hospital comes under Israeli siege and attack

Israeli tanks are encircling the Kamal Adwan hospital and attacking its vicinity, one of the last remaining operational health facilities in the northern Gaza Strip. 

The attacks on the hospital follow a similar pattern in recent weeks of siege and bombing against Gaza City's major health facilities, the al-Shifa medical complex and the Indonesian Hospital. 

Journalists reporting from the scene said the vicinity of Kamal Adwan Hospital, located in Jabalia, was continuously hit overnight with artillery shelling.  

A drone strike targeting the northern gate of the hospital just after midnight killed four people, according to local reports.

The Palestinian health ministry's director-general in Gaza, Dr Munir al-Borsh, said 7,000 people are taking shelter inside the hospital.

He told Al Jazeera he fears another "massacre" would take place at the hospital similar to what happened at al-Shifa and the Indonesian hospitals.