Aid companies hope to evacuate roughly 140 sufferers stranded in Gaza’s Nasser hospital, a World Health Organisation official mentioned on Thursday, as Palestinian authorities reported that Israeli troops withdrew from the complicated after which stormed it once more.
Medical groups had buried on the grounds of the hospital 13 sufferers who had died as a result of the ability had no energy or oxygen, Gaza’s well being ministry mentioned.
The WHO says the hospital in Khan Younis, which is Gaza’s second-largest and is essential to the territory’s crippled well being providers, stopped working final week after an Israeli siege adopted by a raid.
The WHO and companions have thus far carried out three evacuations from the hospital, the most recent on Wednesday, transferring a complete of 51 sufferers to southern Gaza, the UN company’s Ayadil Saparbekov advised a press briefing.
“The WHO will continue to try evacuation of those critically ill and critically wounded patients from the Nasser hospital to other hospitals in the south, including the field hospitals that have been established in Rafah,” he mentioned.
“However, it’s a very difficult and high-risk mission.”
Israeli forces had withdrawn from the hospital, positioning themselves close by and stopping motion to and from it earlier than storming it as soon as extra, the Gaza well being ministry mentioned. There was no fast remark from Israel.
