A video obtained by Reuters on Monday (September 29) showed rooms and beds strewn with debris at Al‑Helo Hospital in Gaza City.

Palestinian health officials say tanks are surrounding the area near the hospital where at least 12 babies are in incubators. Medics said the site was shelled.

The U.N. children's charity called on Monday for an immediate evacuation to save at least 25 ill or premature babies in incubators in Gaza City as Israel steps up its ground offensive, shelling a hospital overnight housing around half of them.

"It is time to move them because Gaza City again has become a combat zone, but moving them where? There is no safe place for them to go," UNICEF spokesperson Ricardo Pires told Reuters.

Israeli authorities did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

It was not immediately clear which hospitals could take the babies, with many damaged, overcrowded and facing shortages.

From nearby Al‑Shifa Hospital, emergency department head Dr. Moataz Harara said staff are "providing only minimum service" to keep patients alive and urged that hospitals be protected from attacks.

Four health facilities in Gaza City have shut down so far this month, according to the World Health Organization.

DESCRIPCIÓN DE IMÁGENES

GAZA CITY, GAZA (SEPTEMBER 29, 2025) (VIDEO OBTAINED BY REUTERS – Access all)

1. VARIOUS OF DAMAGED EXTERIOR OF AL-HELO HOSPITAL WITH SIGNS READING (English/Arabic): ‘Main Entrance’ / 'Al-Helo Hospital welcomes you. We care for you with God's help'

2. PEOPLE GATHERING OUTSIDE THE HOSPITAL AS A WOMAN CLEARS DEBRIS

3. DEBRIS

4. VARIOUS OF DEBRIS AND DAMAGED HOSPITAL BEDS

5. PALESTINIAN WHOSE SON WAS HOSPITALIZED IN AL-HELO HOSPITAL, SOBEIH ATALLAH AND HIS WIFE REMOVING DAMAGED BELONGINGS

6. (SOUNDBITE) (Arabic) PALESTINIAN WHOSE SON WAS HOSPITALIZED IN AL-HELO HOSPITAL, SOBEIH ATALLAH, SAYING:

“There was nothing and suddenly (my son) was sick and could not breathe except with a ventilator. Do you understand? Suddenly they said the hospital was bombed. I hurried over that night. We did not know how to enter (because of the bombing). We came at dawn, in the morning. We tried every possible means to enter, we found the hospital had been bombed. This is a general problem. This is wrong. Where are the (international) organisations and human rights (organisations)? Where is the (Red) Cross? Where is the protection of hospitals?”

7. VARIOUS OF ATALLAH AND HIS WIFE PUSHING DAMAGED HOSPITAL BED AND SEARCHING FOR BELONGINGS

8. (SOUNDBITE) (Arabic) PALESTINIAN WHOSE SON WAS HOSPITALIZED IN AL-HELO HOSPITAL, SOBEIH ATALLAH, SAYING

“We had a rough time, we officially had a rough time. We want to go to the south. There is no space in the south, and you have to pay rent in the south. We went through a lot and (are) devastated."

JOURNALIST ASKING: "Is there anywhere safe in Gaza?"

ATALLAH: "There is no safe place in Gaza, even the hospitals. Here it is, this is the result... A shell fell over a patient with lung disease. Until when will this go on? He has a referral and we can’t get him to hospitals (referring to treatment abroad).”

9. VARIOUS OF DEBRIS AND DAMAGED HOSPITAL BEDS

10. (SOUNDBITE) (Arabic) HEAD OF AL-SHIFA HOSPITAL’S EMERGENCY DEPARTMENT, MOATAZ HARARA, SAYING (SPEAKING FROM WITHIN AL-SHIFA HOSPITAL):

“Yesterday, there was extreme tension around Al-Shifa Hospital, particularly near Al-Helo Hospital, which had been hit by shelling, disrupting the healthcare system the night before. Medical staff were in a state of panic, and so were patients, many of whom left the hospital on their own.”

11. VARIOUS OF DAMAGE, DEBRIS AND RUBBLE INSIDE AL-HELO HOSPITAL

12. (SOUNDBITE) (Arabic) HEAD OF AL-SHIFA HOSPITAL’S EMERGENCY DEPARTMENT, MOATAZ HARARA, SAYING (SPEAKING FROM WITHIN AL-SHIFA HOSPITAL):

“We are present in the hospital and we are providing the minimum service so that we do not lose the patients admitted to the hospital, but we demand that the hospitals be kept away from Israeli attacks and that they operate normally.”

13. OPEN GLASS DOOR IN AL-HELO LEADING TO A HALLWAY WITH A SIGN READING (English/Arabic): ‘I.V.F. Department; Second Floor’

GENEVA, SWITZERLAND (SEPTEMBER 29, 2025) (REUTERS – Access all)

14. (SOUNDBITE) (English) SPOKESPERSON FOR U.N. CHILDREN'S AGENCY UNICEF IN GENEVA, RICARDO PIRES, SAYING:

“We estimate that at least 25 babies are currently in Gaza City depending on incubators, they are at different locations across the area. At least 13 are estimated to be at al-Helo hospital which has been reportedly attacked overnight, some of them are in other hospitals around that area.”

GAZA CITY, GAZA (SEPTEMBER 29, 2025) (VIDEO OBTAINED BY REUTERS – Access all)

15. VARIOUS OF DAMAGE, RUBBLE INSIDE AL-HELO HOSPITAL

GENEVA, SWITZERLAND (SEPTEMBER 29, 2025) (REUTERS – Access all)

16. (SOUNDBITE) (English) SPOKESPERSON FOR U.N. CHILDREN'S AGENCY UNICEF IN GENEVA, RICARDO PIRES, SAYING:

“It is time to move them because Gaza City again has become a combat zone, but moving them where? There is no safe place for them to go and moreover the health infrastructure that is required to keep them alive is no longer present in other...some of the few remaining hospitals or clinics in Gaza, so they reached a point where the only thing that can save them is a ceasefire, It's when the guns go silent and they don’t need to be relocated from the areas where they can be kept in incubators.”

GAZA CITY, GAZA (SEPTEMBER 29, 2025) (VIDEO OBTAINED BY REUTERS – Access all)

17. DAMAGED EXTERIOR OF AL-SHIFA HOSPITAL

18. VARIOUS OF INTERIOR OF AL-SHIFA HOSPITAL WITH EMPTY BEDS AS PEOPLE GATHER AT THE RECEPTION AREA

19. VARIOUS OF AL-SHIFA HOSPITAL COURTYARD / PEOPLE GATHERING

20. STREET SCENE