The last Gaza Hospital that provides cardiac care and cancer has stopped operating after an Israeli attack, the World Health Organization (WHO) said Thursday.
The head of the United Nations Health Agency, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, said in X that Tuesday’s attack had left the European Khan Younes hospital “severely damaged and inaccessible.”
He “is no longer functional,” he said, added that a WHO team had evacuated emergency medical staff that was in the place during the attack.
The WHO head said that “the hospital closure has interrupted vital services, including neurosurgery, cardiac care and cancer treatment, which are not available in other parts of the gaza strip.”
“This closure also puts an end to the role of the establishment as a center for medical evacuations, which puts an even more rude health system,” added Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus.
“One of the last buoys of life was destroyed”
Doctors Without Borders (MSF) also condemned the consequences of this closure.
“One of the last rescue buoys of the Gaza Health System has broken,” said the NGO in X, stating that Nasser Hospital was now the only one to operate in Khan Younes, in the south of the Gaza Strip.
According to MSF, that the remaining hospitals of the territory “mostly partially functional are constantly overwhelmed.”
“Repeated attacks in health establishments are a new example of the measures taken by Israeli authorities so that the Gaza band cannot be lived,” adds MSF.
Source: BFM TV
