DUBAI, December 24. /TASS/. Israel has launched new attacks on the Kamal Adwan hospital in the northern Gaza Strip, attacking it for the first time with suicide robots, Qatari TV channel Al Jazeera reported.

According to the report, the Israeli military shelled the hospital from tanks and also using attack drones. There are about 400 civilians in the medical facility, including newborn babies in incubators, who are almost impossible to evacuate.

The situation in the Middle East has escalated sharply since armed supporters of the radical Hamas group infiltrated Israeli territory from the Gaza Strip on October 7, killing residents of border settlements and taking hostages. Israel announced a complete blockade of the Palestinian enclave and began bombing it and certain areas of Lebanon and Syria, after which it launched a ground operation in Gaza.