After 18 days of operations, Israeli troops withdrew from the al-Chifa hospital complex in Gaza, leaving behind immense destruction and corpses. Witnesses on site speak of hundreds of decomposing corpses all around the hospital.
The human cost for civilians is appalling, admits Margaret Harris, WHO spokesperson. The question also arises for UN agencies. Should we stay in Gaza? Or evacuate targeted personnel, even when their movements have been communicated to the army? Since the start of the war, several NGOs have claimed that their employees or sites had been hit by Israeli strikes.