NEW YORK, December 13. /TASS/. The Israeli military has arrested more than 70 medical employees of Kamal Adwan Hospital in Jabalia in the northern Gaza Strip, CNN reported on Tuesday, citing a hospital’s doctor.

According to the doctor, more than 70 medical workers were arrested and taken in an unknown direction.

He also said that there is no water and electricity at the hospital and medics have to use flashlights to attend to the remaining patients, with women, children and elderly people among them.

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.