Hussam Abu Safia, the director of the Kamal Adwan Hospital, has released a video message describing what he says is an unprecedented attack on the facility.

According to Al Jazeera, here’s what he said:

“The Israeli military has targeted the Kamal Adwan Hospital with different types of weapons without prior warning. We are being directly attacked, the ICU unit, along with the maternity and nursing departments, are coming under fire.

“The bombing is being conducted with tank fire and quadcopters, directly targeting us while we are present inside the hospital departments. We don’t know why we are being targeted at this hour.

“We have been informed that the hospital will be evacuated in the next few hours. This is catastrophic because we are the only hospital providing services here in the north.

“Evacuating the hospital means, evacuating 66 patients and all of the hospital facilities and the medical staff. We had asked the world to intervene immediately and protect the healthcare system from this brutal attack.

“For more than an hour, the shelling continues. We hold the world accountable.”