Al-Awda Hospital

Hospital · Speciality Hospital — Jabalia, North Gaza

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Al-Awda Hospital

📍 Jabalia, North Gaza
Hospital North Gaza Operational Closed
Al-Awda Hospital
📷 Al-Awda Hospital
Incidents recorded
22
Civilians killed
5
Capacity (pre-war)
97
Specialization
Multi-specialty / Obstetrics
22
Total incidents
5
Civilians killed
Civilians injured
6
Health workers killed

Incident history (22)

📅 2025-09-30 hit INC-073
Western gate was hit injuring hospital staff (number of injuries not specified), a security officer who has injured in the hit died a week later (October 7) from his injuries
Sources: 📜 Humanitarian Situation Update #329 | Gaz 🔗 reutersconnect ⌛ archiving pending
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📅 2025-08-01 evacuation INC-072
The last partially functioning hospital in North Gaza, was ordered by Israeli forces to immediately evacuate patients and staff. on 3 January. The hospital’s fuel tank and last remaining generator were also recently destroyed after it was directly targeted.
Sources: 📜 Humanitarian Situation Update #253 | Gaz
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📅 2025-05-29 evacuated INC-070
was forcibly evacuated and rendered out of service.
Sources: 📜 Humanitarian Situation Update #294 | Gaz
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📅 2025-05-29 evacuation INC-071
hospital evacuated and rendered out of service

On 29 May, Al Awda Hospital, the last minimally functional hospital in North Gaza, was forcibly evacuated and rendered out of service. According to the hospital’s Director, Mohammad Salha, Israeli forces “informed us that either we evacuate the hospital immediately or they will forcibly evacuate it.” Dr. Salha stated that 82 medical staff and 13 patients were forced to evacuate under extremely difficult conditions. With all roads leading to the hospital blocked or destroyed, ambulances could not reach the hospital and patients had to be carried for over 200 metres before reaching MoH ambulances that transferred them to Al Shifa Hospital in Gaza city, he added. Between 15 and 23 May, the hospital was repeatedly hit and faced critical shortages of medicines. On 24 and 27 May, the World Health Organization (WHO) managed to reach the facility and transferred critical patients to Al Shifa Hospital in Gaza city.

Sources: 📜 Humanitarian Situation Update #294 | Gaz 🔗 facebook ⌛ archiving pending
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📅 2025-05-22 Tank Shell INC-068
Israeli IOF tanks injured medical personnel and volunteers and burnt departments

Israeli tanks that had surrounded al-'Awda Hospital directly targeted the hospital's Specialized Surgery Department and medicine warehouse. The attack ignited a fire in the warehouse, which medical crews were unable to extinguish due to the IOF's ongoing gunfire. It also destroyed the hospital's water and fuel tanks and caused extensive damage to its infrastructure. The Israeli tanks then stormed the hospital courtyards, set fire to the outpatient clinic tents, and injured several medical personnel and volunteers.

Sources: 🔗 pchrgaza ⌛ archiving pending 🔗 unocha ⌛ archiving pending
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hospital’s third and fourth floors were reportedly hit, injuring two health workers. Patient tents caught fire, which also burned all medical supplies in the warehouse and destroyed vehicles in the basement.
📅 2025-05-22 airstrikes INC-069
hospital’s third and fourth floors were reportedly hit, injuring two health workers. Patient tents caught fire, which also burned all medical supplies in the warehouse and destroyed vehicles in the basement.

On 22 May, the hospital’s third and fourth floors were reportedly hit, injuring two health workers. Patient tents, including one provided by WHO, caught fire, which also burned all medical supplies in the warehouse and destroyed vehicles in the basement. Al Awda faces an imminent risk of closure due to ongoing insecurity and restricted access, according to WHO.

2 health workers injured
Sources: 🔗 ochaopt ⌛ archiving pending 🔗 facebook ⌛ archiving pending
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📅 2025-05-15 – 2025-05-19 airstrikes, airstrikes-vicinity INC-066
Limited ability for hospital to provide health services

On 15, 18 and 19 May, Al Awda Hospital, in North Gaza, sustained damage due to airstrikes, including a direct Israeli strike near its main gate and multiple airstrikes on areas in its immediate vicinity.

Sources: 🔗 unocha ⌛ archiving pending
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📅 2025-05-15 – 2025-05-23 hit INC-067
Hospital was repeatedly hit facing the imminent risk of closure

Between 15 and 23 May, Al-Awda Hospital, in North Gaza, was repeatedly hit. After both the Indonesian and Kamal Adwan hospitals went out of service, Al Awda became the only hospital in the governorate that remains partially functional, albeit under extreme conditions.

Sources: 🔗 unocha ⌛ archiving pending
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📅 2025-01-03 Evacuation Order INC-065
Evacuation order after daily attacks near or on its premises

The Al Awda Hospital, the last partially functioning hospital in North Gaza, was ordered by Israeli forces to immediately evacuate patients and staff. While Al Awda continues to operate, access to the facility, where 34 patients and 63 staff remain, is very limited amid ongoing hostilities in the area.

Sources: 🔗 aljazeera ⌛ archiving pending 🔗 unocha ⌛ archiving pending
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📅 2024-12-24 Tank Shell INC-064
Military tanks attacked the third floor of the eastern wing

Military tanks reportedly attacked the third floor of the eastern wing of the Al Awda Hospital, causing panic among the 31 patients, their companions and the 65 medical and administrative personnel inside. In previous days, Al Awda had already sustained significant damage due to multiple airstrikes on its vicinity. Parts of the building caught fire, which also spread to nearby residential buildings.

Sources: 🔗 unocha ⌛ archiving pending 🔗 aljazeera ⌛ archiving pending
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📅 2024-12-07 Shot INC-063
A volunteer nurse who was fatally shot in the chest while looking out of a window

The UN Human Rights Office verified multiple cases of people being shot dead at Al Awda Hospital in Jabalya, including a volunteer nurse who was fatally shot in the chest while looking out of a window on 7 December 2023.

1 health workers killed
Sources: 🔗 ohchr ⌛ archiving pending
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📅 2024-10-03 hit INC-062
The fifth floor and courtyard were hit

The hospital's fifth floor and courtyard were hit with no casualties reported.

Sources: 🔗 unocha ⌛ archiving pending 🔗 gazahcsector ⌛ archiving pending
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📅 2024-05-23 Forced Evacuation INC-061
Most of staff and patients are forced to evacuate

After a four‑day siege, Israeli tanks approached the hospital and troops used loudspeakers to order all patients and staff to evacuate leaving small group of medical staff with a handful of critically ill patients who could not be moved, under military supervision.

Sources: 🔗 nytimes ⌛ archiving pending 🔗 youtube ⌛ archiving pending
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📅 2024-05-19 besieged INC-060
Al Awda Hospital has been besieged and is currently inaccessible

Al-Awda Hospital in northern Gaza has been under siege since 19 May, with no one allowed to leave or enter; 148 hospital staff, 22 patients and their companions are still trapped inside. Medical staff inside the hospital reported an attack on 20 May, with snipers aiming at the building and an artillery rocket hitting the fifth floor, where the administration department is located.

Sources: 🔗 unocha ⌛ archiving pending 🔗 news ⌛ archiving pending
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📅 2024-01-24 hit INC-058
Five people killed

At least five Palestinians were killed by an Israeli air attack on the al-Awda Hospital compound in the Jabalia refugee camp in northern Gaza. Sections of the hospital are out of service and several ambulances have been damaged.

5 killed
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📅 2023-12-13 encirclement INC-057
Remains surrounded by Israeli troops and tanks

For the eighth consecutive day, Al Awda Hospital, remains surrounded by Israeli troops and tanks, and fighting with armed Palestinian groups is reported in its vicinity. Reportedly, 250 doctors, patients, and their family members are trapped inside the hospital.

Sources: 🔗 unocha ⌛ archiving pending
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📅 2023-12-09 fighting-vicinity INC-055
Hospital surrounded by israeli troops and two health workers were dead

On 9 December, for the third consecutive day, Al-Awda Hospital in Jabalia was reportedly surrounded by Israeli troops and tanks, and fighting was ongoing in its vicinity. Two health workers were reportedly shot and killed.

Sources: 🔗 unocha ⌛ archiving pending
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📅 2023-12-09 fighting-vicinity INC-056
Surrounded by Israeli troops and tanks, and fighting in its vicinity. Two health workers were reportedly shot and killed.

Surrounded by israeli troops and tanks, and fighting is ongoing for the third consecutive day, two health workers were reportedly shot and killed in Al-Awda hospital

2 health workers killed
Sources: 🔗 unocha ⌛ archiving pending
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📅 2023-12-07 shelling, sniper fire INC-054
Sustained damage due to Israeli shelling. Israeli sniper fire into the hospital.

Al-Awda Hospital in Jabalia — one of only two still operational hospitals in the north — was surrounded by Israeli forces and sustained damage due to Israeli shelling. Israeli sniper fire into the hospital was also reported

Sources: 🔗 unocha ⌛ archiving pending
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📅 2023-11-21 attack INC-053
Attack killed three doctors, one patient companion, and injured many patients

Al-Awda Hopital was bombed with an airstrike with the third and fourth floor of the building taking a direct hit. This was responsible for killing of three medical personnel, Two MSF doctors — Dr. Mahmoud Abu Nujaila and Dr. Ahmad Al Sahar — and a third Ministry of Health doctor, Dr. Ziad Al-Tatari, and one patient companion. Also it included MSF staff and patients who were severely injured

3 health workers killed
Sources: 🔗 unocha ⌛ archiving pending 🔗 reliefweb ⌛ archiving pending
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📅 2023-11-10 Bombardment (Vicinity) INC-052
Vicinity bombardment. Some ambulances got out of services

A number of medical staff at the hospital, in addition to a number of Palestinian Red Crescent Society paramedics, were injured during repeated bombings by occupation forces in the vicinity of the hospital, which also caused severe damage to the hospital and to several ambulances.

Sources: 🔗 ochaopt ⌛ archiving pending 🔗 gazahcsector ⌛ archiving pending
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one injured paramedic, and two ambulances appear damaged.
📅 2023-11-09 Bombardment INC-051
one injured paramedic, and two ambulances appear damaged.

With one PCR parademic injured, images show two Palestinian Red Crescent ambulances near the hospital that appear damaged. Another video shows people appearing to shelter inside an ambulance amid heavy bombardment.

1 health workers injured
Sources: 🔗 theguardian ⌛ archiving pending 🔗 palestinercs ⌛ archiving pending
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