Israeli forces raided northern Gaza's last hospital and detained its director as a purported Hamas suspect. U.N. officials say he must be freed immediately.

Both Israel and Hamas are under pressure from outgoing U.S. President Joe Biden and President-elect Donald Trump to reach a deal before the Jan. 20 inauguration.

The Israeli military has launched a new offensive against alleged terrorist activity in northern Gaza, focusing on a hospital it says has been a “center of gravity” for Hamas

The Israel Defense Forces continues its intense airstrike and ground campaigns in Gaza, particularly in the north of the strip around several Palestinian hospitals.

The Hamas Movement called on the international community, the World Health Organization and the Red Cross to intervene immediately to halt Israel’s assault on what remains of Gaza’s healthcare system.

As the renewed clashes in the north of the enclave neared the three-month mark, there was no sign of them abating.

Israeli forces detained more than 240 Palestinians including dozens of medical staff from a north Gaza hospital they raided on Friday, including its director, according to the Health Ministry in the enclave and Israel's military.

The Israeli military said Hamas militants were the targets of the strike on Gaza City's Al Wafa hospital, which the Palestinian civil defence said killed seven people.

Doctors at Hadassah Ein Kerem Hospital said Netanyahu was recuperating satisfactorily, although his recovery period is not over.

Human rights groups have reported on cases of alleged torture and ill-treatment of medical staff from Gaza in Israeli detention.

UN experts on Thursday denounced Israel's raid on an embattled hospital in northern Gaza, demanding an end to the "blatant assault" on health rights in the besieged Palestinian territory. "For well over a year into the genocide,

Israel's military said on Saturday it had ended its raid on "a Hamas command centre" in a north Gaza hospital and detained its director as a suspected Hamas operative.It added that the hospital's director,