In a statement, the ministry says Israeli forces have hit the roof of an administration building at Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital in Gaza’s central city of Deir el-Balah, Al Jazeera reports.

The attack, it said, caused “fear and confusion among medical staff, patients and their companions”.

The ministry condemned Israel for continuing a “systematic policy of undermining” Gaza’s health system and called for the “urgent … protection of health facilities”.