Five journalists have been killed in an overnight Israeli strike that hit their vehicle in Gaza, Al-Awda Hospital said in a statement on Thursday.

Five people were killed in Gaza City's Zeitoun neighborhood. In a separate incident, five journalists were killed when their vehicle was struck in Nuseirat.

Israeli soldiers raided a hospital in isolated northern Gaza after forcing all the patients and most of the doctors to leave, the Palestinian Health Ministry said Tuesday. The Israeli military confirmed its troops had entered the Indonesian Hospital in the town of Jabaliya as part of an operation searching for Hamas

The Israeli military on Tuesday reportedly ordered the evacuation of a hospital in the contested northern Gaza Strip, as the Israeli parliament voted to extend the state of emergency in the country for another year.

Israeli troops forced the evacuation of the Indonesian Hospital in northern Gaza and many patients, some of them on foot, arrived at another hospital miles away in Gaza City, the territory's health ministry said on Tuesday.