MSF lambasts Israeli attack on Gaza’s Nasser Hospital
Doctors Without Borders, known by its French acronym MSF, has condemned the Israeli attack on Nasser Hospital that killed a top Hamas leader and a 16-year-old boy.
The group said the attack late on Sunday “shows a total disregard for the protection of medical facilities, endangered patients and medical staff and the very provision of healthcare”.
It said several of its staff were present at the facility, which is the largest remaining functioning hospital in the Gaza Strip, at the time of the attack. One of them described panic among patients as the bombing took place.
“The distance between us and the explosion was so close that we could’ve been hit too,” said an MSF nurse who works in another ward in Nasser Hospital and was close by when the strike happened. “Our colleagues, medical staff, patients and their caretakers were all terrified.”
UN humanitarian agency condemns Israel’s attack on Gaza hospital
OCHA has shared a video showing the destruction at Nasser Hospital in Khan Younis after Israel’s deadly attack on Sunday.
Olga Cherevko, a spokesperson for the agency, said that “more lives and the very existence of Gaza are at stake”. “Our calls for this madness to stop have gone unheeded. This bloody stain on our collective consciousness can only be undone if the world acts now,” she added.
Horrific scenes from last night's attack on Nasser Hospital in #Gaza.
Scores more people have been killed and injured over the past week, and the numbers continue to rise.
"This bloody stain on our collective consciousness can only be undone if the world acts now." ⬇️⬇️⬇️ pic.twitter.com/ySSTPizeFR
— UN Humanitarian (@UNOCHA) March 24, 2025
PRCS says its 9 staff members still missing; Israel blocks search effort
Nine members of the Palestine Red Crescent Society are missing for a third consecutive day after they failed to return from a rescue mission in southern Gaza’s Rafah city.
The first responders headed for the al-Hashaashin neighbourhood of Rafah on Sunday after reports of casualties, but were “besieged” by Israeli forces, according to PRCS.
Their fate “remains unknown”, it said. Israeli authorities have refused to cooperate with efforts to reach them through international organisations.
“The Palestine Red Crescent expresses its deep concern for the safety of its teams and holds the Israeli occupation authorities fully responsible for their fate,” it said on X.
🚨For the third consecutive day, the fate of nine Palestine Red Crescent ambulance crew members remains unknown after they were besieged and targeted by Israeli occupation forces in #Rafah.
⭕️Meanwhile, the occupation authorities continue to reject all coordination attempts by…
— PRCS (@PalestineRCS) March 25, 2025
Gaza authorities demand immediate release of civil defence teams in Rafah
Gaza’s Government Media Office has accused Israel of “kidnapping 15 emergency and civil defence personnel in Rafah”, after they left to carry out rescue operations in the southern Gaza Strip.
“We demand their immediate release,” it said in a statement. “This heinous crime constitutes a flagrant violation of international law through the deliberate enforced disappearance of humanitarian personnel who are protected under the Geneva Conventions.”
Earlier, the Palestine Red Crescent Society said nine of its staff were missing for a third consecutive day after they failed to return from a rescue mission in Rafah.
