Gaza's Health Ministry says Israeli troops have stormed one of the last hospitals operating in the territory's north and forced many of the staff and patients outside. Then they had to remove their clothes in winter weather. Friday's incident was the latest assault on Kamal Adwan Hospital. Staff say it has been hit multiple times in the past three months by Israeli troops waging an offensive against Hamas fighters in the surrounding neighborhoods. Israel's military says Hamas uses the hospital as a base. It did not provide evidence, and hospital officials have denied it.

Palestinian health officials say that Israeli strikes have killed 38 people in southern Gaza, including at least 15 members of the same extended family, 13 of them children. In northern Gaza, health officials said Friday that Israeli forces raided Kamal Adwan Hospital, one of the few medical facilities still functioning in the area, where the military has renewed its offensive against Hamas and aid groups are sounding the alarm over dire humanitarian conditions. In Lebanon, rare Israeli strikes on the country's southeast killed three journalists working for news outlets that are considered to be aligned with the Lebanese militant group Hezbollah and its patron, Iran.