NEW YORK, November 24. /TASS/. There are just two doctors left at Al-Shifa hospital in the Gaza Strip, the hospital’s head of plastic surgery told NBC News.

"Most of the staff have left yesterday, except for two doctors, me and my colleague and one nurse all in the hospital," the person said, according to NBC News.

Although he described the situation as "very, very difficult," he said they're focused on about 200 patients left at the hospital, the report said.

The Israel Defense Forces earlier said the Al-Shifa hospital director was apprehended and transferred to the security service Shin Bet for questioning, saying evidence had been obtained that the facility had served as a Hamas command and control center.

The situation in the Middle East sharply escalated following an incursion of Hamas militants from the Gaza Strip into Israel on October 7, accompanied by killings of residents of Israeli settlements near the border and taking more than 200 hostages, including children, women and elderly people. Hamas has cast the attack as a response to Israeli actions against the Al-Aqsa Mosque in Jerusalem. Israel has declared a complete siege of the Gaza Strip and started a military operation there. Israel also strikes parts of Lebanon and Syria in retaliation for bombardments originating from these countries. Clashes are also taking place in the West Bank.