According to reports from the UN Office for Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA), Israeli forces attacked targets in Gaza City, Jabaliya camp, Tal Az Za'atar and Beit Lahiya, causing numerous deaths in the Al-Fallouja area of the Jabaliya camp.
OCHA warned of further attacks in the (central) Deir Al Balah governorate and the southern cities of Khan Younis and Rafah, while the World Health Organization (WHO) insisted on the immense need for hospitals to treat patients on site.
Doctors at the only functioning facility in Deir al Balah governorate are being forced to stop rescue activities and other critical measures and leave, Sean Casey, WHO health emergencies officer, lamented in an alarming video posted on X, formerly Twitter.
According to the representative, there are only five doctors left at Al-Aqsa Hospital in central Gaza, where a WHO team delivered medical supplies to help 4,500 dialysis patients for three months and 500 dialysis patients. Trauma care.
The head of the UN health agency, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, asserted that no hospital was fully functioning in the north of the enclave.
In Al-Aqsa, more than 600 patients and most health workers were forced to leave the facilities, said the WHO director-general, finding it inconceivable that health care could not be relied upon to protect.
Meanwhile, in other parts of the Gaza Strip, only a handful of health facilities are operating, Ghebreyesus added.
According to OCHA estimates, 225 Palestinians were killed and nearly 300 injured between Friday and Sunday.
For its part, the Gaza Strip Health Ministry estimates the number of victims of the conflict in the enclave, which erupted after Hamas invaded southern Israel on October 7, at 22,835, with a death toll of 1,200 and 250 hostages.
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