All hospitals in the northern Gaza Strip are currently "out of service," despite efforts underway to get any of the hospitals in the area devastated by Israeli attacks operational again, reported Anadolu Agency.

In a statement on Thursday, Gaza-based Health Ministry spokesman Ashraf Al-Qudra said medical teams are facing difficulties trying to work at the Al-Shifa Hospital, in the western Gaza City – the largest medical complex in the Gaza Strip.

"Despite the difficulties, we will keep up attempts to run any hospital in the Gaza Strip," Al-Qudra added.

The spokesman noted that Nasser Hospital in the city of Khan Younis, southern Gaza, is crowded with about 1,000 wounded people, with patients and injured people lying on the hospital floor.

The Gaza-based Government Media Office also quoted Maher Shamiyya, a ministry official, as saying Al-Shifa is without electricity and is full of displaced people.

According to the Gaza authorities and international health organizations, relief and medical supplies are entering Gaza in very limited quantities, while a lack of fuel, barred by Israel as of Oct. 7, remains the major obstacles to run the hospitals.

Israel resumed its military offensive on the Gaza Strip on Dec. 1 after the end of a weeklong humanitarian pause with the Palestinian group Hamas.

The Ministry of Health in Gaza has said that 17,177 people – including 7,112 children – have been killed and 46,000 wounded since the Hamas-Israel warfare started on October 7.