Vital medical services “collapsed” at Nasser Hospital, which is the largest operating hospital in Gaza City, Doctors Without Borders (MSF) warned.
“The surgical capacity of the (Nasser) hospital is now almost non-existent, and the handful of medical staff who remain in the hospital must deal with very scarce supplies that are insufficient to cope with mass casualty events and large influxes of injured people,” he said. MSF said in a statement on Friday, adding that at least one patient died on Wednesday because an orthopedic surgeon was not available.
World Health Organization (WHO) chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus also said access to resupply Nasser Hospital in Khan Younis “remains a challenge” due to intense fighting in the surrounding area.
“Hundreds of patients and healthcare workers have fled,” he said in a statement on Friday. “Currently 350 patients and 5,000 displaced people remain in the hospital.”
Earlier on Friday, the Palestinian Red Crescent Society (PRCS) said “shrapnel fragments” were piercing the walls of its headquarters in the Al-Amal Hospital building in Khan Younis, which it said the agency, was surrounded by Israeli tanks.
Meanwhile, the Israeli military said Hamas was operating from inside the Al-Amal and Nasser hospitals. CNN cannot independently verify those claims.