The Israeli military has targeted three main hospitals in the northern Gaza Strip, with doctors and authorities in the enclave demanding immediate international intervention.

Israel on Tuesday launched a week-long assault on Kamal Adwan Hospital and Indonesian Hospital in besieged Beit Lahiya, as well as Al Auda Hospital east of the Jabaliya refugee camp.

Two unmanned robotic vehicles carrying explosives were deployed earlier The Israeli military killed around 20 patients and medical staff in an explosion near Kamal Adwan early on Tuesday, hospital director Hussam Abu Safia told Al Jazeera Injuried.

This is the first time the Israeli military has used these explosives outside Kamal Adwan, but there have been similar reports of them being used to detonate buildings in northern Gaza.

Al Jazeera’s Hani Mahmoud reported from Deir al-Balah in central Gaza: “Witnesses told us that much of the area around the hospital has been cleared of buildings and infrastructure has been destroyed and severely damaged, hampering access to and from the hospital. “.

The hospital was repeatedly bombed by the Israeli military, rendering many departments including the intensive care unit inoperable.

The Israeli military raided the third floor of Al-Awda, a charity that provides free medical services in the north of the enclave, on Tuesday. A fire broke out in part of the building and spread to nearby residential buildings.

The Indonesian hospital, a larger medical facility, has also come under increasing attacks and threats from Israel, with Israeli forces threatening to evacuate the entire hospital.

Al Jazeera’s Mahmoud said two hospitals have been delivering medical supplies to besieged Kamal Adwan and moving patients out of there where possible.

“The Indonesian hospital has been crippled by attacks over the past few months. Much of the facility was damaged, forcing many to evacuate. As of midnight, the Israeli military issued a warning to everyone inside the hospital, including patients, that tanks and quadrilaterals were under attack Threatened by aircraft, left the hospital in cold weather and went out into the streets.”

Hospital directors, health authorities and human rights groups inside and outside Gaza have been condemning the attacks and calling on the international community for help, but the situation in the north has only worsened.

Gaza’s health ministry said in a statement on Tuesday that the Israeli military was trying to take all three hospitals in the north out of service and called for intervention.

The Palestinian Center for Human Rights (PCHR) said more than 20 attacks using drones, shelling and gunfire on Kamal Adwan Hospital in recent days showed “the persistence of genocide” in Gaza.

Providing aid ‘almost impossible’

The Israeli military continues to launch multiple deadly air strikes on Gaza every day, with medical sources confirming on Tuesday that at least 32 people have been killed in the past 24 hours.

Some of Israel’s latest attacks include a bombing of a house in central Gaza that killed four people, including a child and two women.

Aid groups say the Israeli military has blocked humanitarian aid shipments to the enclave, and the chaos caused by its ground offensive has created numerous challenges in safely moving the meager trucks to designated locations.

On Monday night, Israeli drones struck an area about 1 kilometer from the Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital in Deir el-Balah, targeting a humanitarian aid convoy.

Al Jazeera reporter Mahmoud reported from the hospital that the Israeli military first allowed criminal gangs to attack the convoy for the purpose of looting, and then launched drone attacks on security personnel trying to protect the cargo.

“These appear to be deliberate attacks aimed at causing more chaos. So far, Israel has killed 30 security personnel.”

Tom Fletcher, head of the United Nations humanitarian agency (OCHA), said that the number of humanitarian aid workers killed this year has reached a record high, and Gaza is currently facing the most dangerous situation to date.

“Therefore, despite the magnitude of humanitarian needs, it is almost impossible to deliver even a fraction of the much-needed aid. Israeli authorities continue to deny us meaningful access – more than 100 requests for access to northern Gaza have been denied since October 6 “We are also now seeing a breakdown in law and order and systematic armed robbery of our supplies.”