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The Palestinian Ministry of Health in Gaza announced, on Monday, that 7 Palestinians were killed and 14 others, medical staff and displaced persons, were injured by Israeli army gunfire at Nasser Hospital in the city of Khan Yunis, south of the Gaza Strip.
Ministry spokesman Ashraf Al-Qudra said in a statement that Israeli army snipers surrounded the hospital and opened fire on anyone who moved in its courtyard, stressing that they killed 7 Palestinians and wounded 14 medical staff and displaced people inside the hospital courtyard.
Al-Qudra confirmed that the suspended ceilings in the hospital and operations departments fell as a result of the explosions surrounding the Nasser Medical Complex.
He also explained that the staff, patients and displaced people ran out of food at the Nasser Medical Complex in Khan Yunis.
Al-Qudra said that sewage water is flooding the emergency department and hindering the work of the crews at the Nasser Medical Complex, and stressed that they need to protect the technical crews to move in the hospital courtyards to repair the sewage network.
International concern
Yesterday, Sunday, the Director-General of the World Health Organization, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, expressed his deep concern about the situation in and around the Nasser Medical Complex, which is besieged by Israeli forces.
“We are deeply concerned about the safety of patients and health workers due to the escalation of hostilities around the hospital,” Ghebreyesus said in a post on the X platform.
According to eyewitnesses, the Israeli army targeted the complex’s buildings and courtyards with gunfire, resulting in the death of two Palestinians and the critical injury of another inside the hospital’s departments and courtyards.
Since January 22, the Israeli army has launched a series of intense air and artillery raids on Khan Yunis, and in the vicinity of the hospitals there, amid ground advances by its vehicles in the southern and western areas of the city, which prompted thousands of Palestinians to flee the city.
Source: Al Jazeera + Anatolia