DUBAI, November 20. /TASS/. More than 2,000 displaced persons are currently taking shelter at an Indonesian Hospital in northern Gaza, Marwan Sultan, the hospital’s medical director, said on Monday.

"The hospital is packed to the brim after it took in displaced persons seeking to escape the bombing," he said in an interview with the Al Jazeera television channel. "There are 700 wounded patients and more than 2,000 displaced persons."

According to the medical director, patients and medical personnel are in a panic in the wake of Israeli strikes. The hospital has only one operating power generator, which is used exclusively to feed electricity to the intensive care unit.

Al Jazeera reported on Monday night that Israeli artillery was extensively shelling the Indonesian Hospital. According to the Al Mayadeen television channel, at least 12 people were killed. The hospital’s surgery unit was totally destroyed, with a number of patients and doctors being wounded, it said.

Tensions flared up again in the Middle East on October 7 after militants from the Gaza Strip-based radical Palestinian group Hamas launched a surprise incursion on Israeli territory, killing many Israeli kibbutz residents living near the Gaza border and abducting more than 200 Israelis, including women, children and the elderly. Hamas described its attack as a response to Israeli authorities’ aggressive actions against the Al-Aqsa Mosque on the Temple Mount in Jerusalem’s Old City. Israel declared a total blockade of the Gaza Strip and launched bombardments of the enclave and some areas in Lebanon and Syria, as well as a ground operation against Hamas in the Gaza Strip. Clashes are also reported in the West Bank.