The Jordanian Field Hospital in the city’s southwestern neighbourhood of Tal al-Hawa received orders from the Israeli military to evacuate on Monday morning, according to a senior health official. The military has already ordered all Palestinians in Gaza City to head south, to the central and southern Gaza Strip. It has told aid workers in private messages that all humanitarian sites, except hospitals, must evacuate.

Dr Muneer al-Boush, director general of the Gaza Health Ministry, said that the hospital has at least 300 patients, as well as medical staff and family members of the patients. The order came as residents reported that troops were approaching the facility, with dozens of families trapped in their homes and shelters around the hospital.