Occupation forces stormed the courtyard of the hospital after demolishing the southern wall, turning it into a military barracks, bulldozed its yards, fired at its medical departments, used dogs to terrorize displaced people and patients, and arrested a number of medical staff and displaced who fled the complex. 

The occupation forces also targeted the ambulance headquarters and the tents of the displaced and bulldozed the mass graves in the medical complex. The Ministry of Health reported that the occupation forces ordered the hospital's management to move all patients to the old Nasser building inside the compound, as the hospital was facing shortages of food, water and baby milk, and forced medical staff to leave the patients. Israeli shelling caused damage to oxygen pumping pipes, destroyed two ambulances, and broke into the maternity building