Jordanian doctor injured in Israeli strike near Khan Younis
Our colleagues at Al Jazeera Arabic, citing a medical source, are reporting that a Jordanian doctor has been injured in an Israeli attack in the vicinity of the Jordanian field hospital west of Khan Younis in the south of the Gaza Strip.
Israel attacked Nasser Hospital repeatedly in past 6 weeks: MSF
Claire Manera, emergency coordinator for Doctors Without Borders (MSF) in Gaza, has told Al Jazeera from a field hospital in central Gaza’s Deir el-Balah that Israeli air raids around Nasser Hospital in the southern city of Khan Younis are intensifying every day, “getting closer and closer”.
She recently left the medical facility following Israeli forced displacement orders.
“Just on Monday, there was an air strike which damaged the ceilings of the OT [operating theatre] and IPD sections, plus they shattered the windows of our inpatient department where some of the critical patients are staying,” she said. “So, it is impossible for us to continue working in these conditions.”
Manera said she was concerned “every day” that Israel could directly target the medical facility “because now everything can be struck at any moment without warning”.
“We are seeing this day by day. It is not just the tents of the displaced people and the camps and the schools of people who are running for their lives, but it is still also medical facilities that are being attacked,” she said.
“Nasser [Hospital] has been attacked at least three or four times since I arrived in the last six weeks, and we just don’t know if it will continue to be safe there.”
Hospitals confirm Israel killed 61 Palestinians in Gaza since dawn
At least 61 Palestinians, including 39 aid seekers, have been killed by Israeli forces in various parts of the Gaza Strip since dawn, according to medical sources speaking to Al Jazeera.
- 27 bodies arrived at al-Shifa Hospital in Gaza City
- Seven at al-Awda Hospital in Nuseirat
- Two at al-Aqsa Hospital in Deir el-Balah
- 25 at Nasser Hospital in Khan Younis
