‘No safe corner’ in Gaza as two more hospitals go out of service, WHO chief says
WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus says that the al-Ahli Arab Hospital and the Patient’s Friends Benevolent Society Hospital in Gaza City are now out of service.
“Patients either self-evacuated, were given early discharge or referred to Kamal Adwan and Indonesian hospitals, which are suffering shortage[s] of fuel, beds and trauma medical supplies,” Tedros said in a post on X.
He said reports on new evacuation orders in Gaza City will further impede the delivery of “very limited life-saving care”.
Other health facilities in the area remain functional but could “quickly become non-functional due to hostilities in their vicinity or obstruction to access”, he warned.
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UN details impact on civilians, hospitals from Israel’s latest Gaza City offensive
UN spokesperson Stephane Dujarric said Israel’s latest evacuation orders for parts of Gaza City impact more than 60 schools where displaced Palestinians are sheltering, as well as two hospitals, six medical points and two primary healthcare centres.
Dujarric said that humanitarian officials report that staff and patients have left the hospitals located in and around the areas ordered evacuated by Israeli forces, and people who were already displaced by earlier evacuation orders and fighting are being forced to flee again, the Associated Press news agency (AP) reports.
He also said that “active hostilities, damaged roads, access limitations and the lack of public order and safety” are hampering the transport of aid along the main humanitarian cargo route from the Karem Abu Salem crossing, which Israel calls the Kerem Shalom crossing, to Khan Younis city in Gaza’s south, and then on to Deir el-Balah in central Gaza.
Critical food shortages and reduced food rations in central and southern Gaza have been the result, he said.
“Just three of the 18 bakeries that our humanitarian colleagues support in Gaza are still operational, all of them in Deir el-Balah,” Dujarric said. “Meanwhile, lack of fuel has forced nine bakeries that were working at partial capacity to completely cease their operations.”
A woman sits with her children on the ground outside their displacement tent in Deir el-Balah in the central Gaza Strip on July 8
