The World Health Organization said on Thursday that northern Gaza has been left without a functional hospital due to a lack of fuel, staff and supplies.
Only nine out of 36 health facilities were partially functional in the whole of Gaza, according to the WHO. All these facilities are concentrated in the enclave’s south.
“There are actually no functional hospitals left in the north,” Richard Peeperkorn, WHO representative in Gaza, told reporters via video link from Jerusalem.
“Al-Ahli (Hospital) was the last one but it is now minimally functional: still treating patients but not admitting new ones.”
Describing it as a “shell of a hospital,” Peeperkorn said Al-Ahli resembled a hospice providing very limited care.
Meanwhile, the United Nations human rights office said it had received reports that Israeli troops “summarily killed” at least 11 unarmed Palestinians in a possible war crime in Gaza.
The office in the West Bank city of Ramallah said the killings were alleged to have been carried out in the Rimal neighborhood of Gaza City this week.—Reuters/AFP
