Fighting intensifies around the largest in operation hospital her Gazawhich is facing operational collapse if more supplies do not reach it, warned today World Health Organisation.
Most hospitals in Gaza have already stopped functioning due to shelling and supply shortages, more than three months after Israeli operations began in the wake of the deadly Hamas attacks on October 7.
The Nasser Hospital in Khan Younis, in central Gaza, is minimally operational and has been surrounded by the Israeli army, the United Nations said.
“The situation around Nasser has worsened, the gunfire, the fighting around it, the difficulty of access for people to get to Nasser or the difficulty of leaving,” WHO spokesman Christian Lindmeier said during a briefing in Geneva.
In the hospital, as APE-MPE notes, there are thousands of displaced persons, where they have found refuge, as well as doctors and patients.
The World Health Organization announced that Hungry crowds today flocked to a food truck bound for hospital, due to delays near an Israeli checkpoint and never reached its final destination.
Another shipment of WHO fuel that was to be delivered to Nasser yesterday was not cleared, although a shipment of medical supplies did arrive, Lindmeier said.
“Refusals (of delivery) and delays are part of a pattern, which prevents humanitarian supplies from reaching hospitals and could render them inoperable,” he said.
Previously, the main hospital was Al Shifa, in flattened northern Gaza, which was raided by Israeli troops and eventually evacuated. Some of the patients were transferred further north and the Nasser hospital has three times the number of patients it can accommodate, the United Nations points out.
Describing Nasser as a 'critical symbol'Lindmeier said that in some cases the procedures are performed on the floor.
Lindmeier reiterated the World Health Organization's appeal for donations to continue funding the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA) after several countries cut funding following allegations that some of its staff were involved in the October 7 attacks.
Source: News Beast
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