Utter devastation was the scene at Gaza's Al-Rantisi Hospital on Friday, more than a month after it was hit by Israeli strikes.

Footage filmed by The Associated Press showed a destroyed building and inside, mangled beds, monitors and medical equipment surrounded by rubble.

The hospital and the area around were under bombardment after Israel launched an offensive to retake control of Gaza City, declaring it a "combat zone" and forcing thousands to evacuate.

Rantisi was the only specialized paediatric hospital left in the Gaza Strip providing oncology, dialysis, respiratory care and gastroenterology diseases for children, according to the World Health Organization.

Walking near the medical unit, Umm Muhammad al-Araishi, who used to live in Sheikh Radwan area, said she can't recognize the area anymore.

"I couldn't find the place, I didn't recognize where my house is, I didn't recognise the whole neighborhood," she said.

Meanwhile a fragile U.S.-brokered Gaza ceasefire agreement, which took effect on Oct. 10, continues to hold.

The war in Gaza was triggered by Hamas’ surprise attack on southern Israel on Oct. 7, 2023, that killed about 1,200 people, mostly civilians, and 250 taken hostage.

Most of them, dead and alive, released but still 13 bodies remain in the hands of the militants.

Israel’s retaliatory offensive in the Palestinian territory has killed more than 68,200 people, according to Gaza’s Health Ministry which is part of the Hamas-run government.

It maintains detailed casualty records that are seen as generally reliable by U.N. agencies and independent experts.

Israel has disputed them without providing its own toll.