The World Health Organization (WHO) stated today that it has lost communication with the Hospital staff Al Shifain the north of Loopamid repeated attacks against the medical center.
“The WHO You have lost communication with your contacts in the Al Shifa Hospitalin the north of Loop. As horrific reports continue to emerge that the hospital is facing repeated attacks, we assume that our contacts have joined tens of thousands of displaced people who had sought refuge on the hospital grounds and are fleeing the area.“said the agency UN it’s a statement.
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In the last 48 hours, the hospital Al Shifawhich is the largest medical complex in Gaza, has been “attacked several times, leaving several dead and many injured” according to the WHO, which added that the intensive care unit suffered damage from the bombing, while areas of the hospital where displaced people were taking refuge have also been damaged.
The director of the World Health Organization, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesuscalled this situation “deeply worrying and terrifying”, as published on his X account (formerly Twitter).
According to the latest reports received by WHO, the hospital was surrounded by tanks and staff reported a lack of clean water and the risk that the last remaining critical functions, including ICUs, ventilators and incubators, would stop working. soon due to lack of fuel, which would immediately endanger the lives of the patients.
WHO again called for an immediate ceasefire in Gaza as the only way to save lives and reduce the horrific levels of suffering and also called for sustained, orderly, unhindered and safe medical evacuations of seriously injured and sick patients to Egypt through the border crossing Rafah.
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Yesterday, the Israeli Army assured that “is a lie” that there is a siege and attacks by its troops on the Al Shifa hospital in Gaza, but that there is fighting with Hamas militiamen in the areas near the medical center.
But medical sources and the Ministry of Health in Gaza, governed by Hamasassure that both the Al Shifa hospital and the rest of the main health centers in Gaza City and the north of the Strip are being surrounded by Israeli troops, in what they considered as “a war against hospitals”.
