Israel ordered the closure and evacuation on Sunday of one of the last hospitals still partly functioning in a besieged area on the northern edge of the Gaza Strip, forcing medics to search for a way to bring hundreds of patients and staff to safety.

Palestinian medics say Israeli airstrikes on the Gaza Strip have killed at least 20 people. One of the strikes overnight and into Monday hit a tent camp in the Muwasi area, an Israel-declared humanitarian zone,

At least 17 Palestinians were killed on Sunday when Israeli forces bombed a school and a hospital in Gaza City amid continuing attacks on civilian infrastructure in the besieged territory. The military attacked the Musa Bin Nusayr School in the city’s al-Daraj neighbourhood,