Médecins Sans Frontières: Israel has besieged hospitals in Gaza / the tragedy in Nasser Hospital

According to the international group Tasnim news agency, Doctors Without Borders issued a statement while referring to the situation The disaster of the “Nasser” medical complex in Khan Yunis, located in the south of the Gaza Strip, announced that the Israeli authorities are obstructing the process of evacuating the hospital and transferring the patients to the field hospital.

It is stated in this statement that the Israeli military is still in The Gaza strip has been deployed around the hospitals and they prevent any aid from reaching these hospitals.

This organization expressed its deep concern over the continued detention of the medical staff affiliated with Doctors Without Borders and stressed that the medical teams should avoid conflicts. Stay away.

Médecins Sans Frontières further pointed to the famine crisis in Gaza and announced that the residents of the northern Gaza Strip and the refugees in this area are suffering from severe hunger and famine and a catastrophic health situation. In addition, the field hospitals affiliated to international organizations are not able to accommodate the refugees.

On the other hand, the Palestinian Ministry of Health in the Gaza Strip announced the martyrdom of 8 patients in Nasser Hospital as a result of the failure of the electricity generators. The bodies have been left among other patients for several days and they start to swell and spread pollution, which is very dangerous for other patients.

This ministry emphasized that the occupying regime allowed the martyrs to be removed from the hospital and It does not allow them to be buried and we ask international organizations to put pressure on this regime so that we can bury the bodies of these 8 martyrs in the yard of Nasser Hospital.

Also, the World Health Organization, expressing concern about the fate of the patients and medical teams who are trapped in this hospital without water, food and electricity, announced: the amount of destruction that occurred in the Nasser Medical Complex in Khan Yunis, It is indescribable and the area where this hospital is located is surrounded by burnt and destroyed buildings.

The World Health Organization announced at the beginning of this week that the Nasser Medical Complex was targeted. It has been completely disabled by the Israeli forces.

Nasser Medical Complex in Khan Yunis consists of several buildings in the field of internal specialties, orthopedics, complex fractures, general and specialized surgery, maternity, pediatrics, face and hand department, diagnostic services, heart care and treatment of burn cases, etc., and it is the second largest hospital in Gaza and the largest hospital in the south of this region, and after Al-Shifa Medical Complex, it is the largest hospital in Gaza that was targeted by the occupiers and It stopped working, Nasser Hospital provided the most services to the people.

The Gaza Ministry of Health reported that the failure of Nasser Medical Complex threatens the lives of hundreds of thousands of people in southern Gaza, especially Rafah and Khan Yunis; Because this hospital was the backbone of health services in the south.

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