“We demand sending UN observers to Gaza hospitals to refute the [Israeli] occupation’s lies and allegations about their use for military purposes,” Hamas said in a statement, according to Al Jazeera Arabic.

“We call on the United Nations and international institutions to intervene urgently to protect the remaining hospitals and medical facilities in northern Gaza.

“The [Israeli] occupation’s systematic destruction of medical facilities places a historical responsibility on the international system for its failure to stop the war of extermination.”