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“Other medical staff, including Médecins Sans Frontières staff, were also seriously injured,” the NGO said in a statement on Tuesday.
Published on November 21, 2023 10:36 p.m. Updated on November 22, 2023 12:10 a.m
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Doctors Without Borders (MSF) and the Palestinian Red Crescent announced on Tuesday, November 21, that three doctors, including two who worked for Doctors Without Borders, were killed in an attack on Al-Awda Hospital in the north of the Gaza Strip were killed. (RICCARDO MILANI / HANS LUCAS / AFP)
Doctors Without Borders (MSF) and the Palestinian Red Crescent announced on Tuesday, November 21, that three doctors, including two who worked for Doctors Without Borders, were killed in an attack on al-Awda Hospital in Jabaliya camp North Gaza were killed. The Red Crescent denounces an “Israeli” attack. “Other members of the medical staff, including MSF staff, were also seriously injured,” MSF said.
Al-Awda is “one of the last functioning hospitals in northern Gaza,” MSF reported in the press release posted on its website, and “more than 200 patients are still there” but “cannot receive adequate treatment.” The collective claims to have informed the belligerents “several times” of the presence of its personnel in the facility and of the fact that it continued to operate. The GPS coordinates of the hospital were also shared with the Israeli authorities yesterday,” the medical association added.
“The only safe place”
Hamas accuses Israel of deadly attacks on hospitals, while Israeli authorities accuse the Islamist movement of using these facilities as hideouts. Al-Shifa hospital, the largest in the small Palestinian territory, was evacuated. Two other hospitals in the northern Gaza Strip, the Indonesian Hospital and the Ahli Arab Hospital, have also asked for help from the World Health Organization to ease evacuations, a World Health Organization spokesman, Christian Lindmeier, said on Tuesday.
According to the spokesperson, “WHO’s priority is not to evacuate hospitals, which are the only safe place for the population to go as a last resort.” However, WHO is developing a plan to evacuate 200 patients and 50 health workers, who are still in Al-Shifa Hospital.
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