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.@WHO has received troubling reports of increasing hostilities and ongoing evacuation orders near the vital Al-Aqsa Hospital in the Middle Area of #Gaza, which according to the facility’s director forced over 600 patients and most health workers to leave. Their locations are not currently known.
Earlier today, @WHO and @UNOCHA visited Al-Aqsa and saw large numbers of wounded people being brought in for urgent treatment.
The health facility reported immense needs, especially health workers, medical supplies and beds. But staff said their greatest need was for their hospital, and its staff, patients and families there, to be protected from strikes and hostilities.
Three months into this conflict, it is inconceivable that this most essential need—the protection of health care—is not assured.
No hospitals are fully functioning in Northern Gaza, where another WHO mission was cancelled today due to dangers and lack of necessary permissions. Elsewhere in Gaza, a mere handful of health facilities operate.
At Al-Aqsa, WHO staff saw sickening scenes of people of all ages being treated on blood-streaked floors and in chaotic corridors. An unidentified child laid dead, partially covered by a sheet, on a bed. Other injured were prostrate on the floor, being stepped over by the health staff and families. A man’s harrowing groans, either from pain or anguish, cut through the emergency ward’s commotion.
The bloodbath in Gaza must end.
Al-Aqsa is extremely short-staffed. Partners at @MedicalAidPal and @RESCUEorg announced today that due to increasing military activity around Al-Aqsa Hospital they have been forced to withdraw their staff working at the hospital and cease activities. On 6 Jan @MSF took similar action due to evacuation orders in areas close to the hospital.
During today’s mission, we were informed that evacuation orders and lack of safety had forced most health staff to leave. Tonight’s reports indicate that only 5 doctors remain. Hospital management said health workers had no food.
The WHO team delivered medical supplies to support 4500 patients needing dialysis for 3 months and 500 patients requiring trauma care.
WHO is planning to facilitate the much-needed deployment of an emergency medical team to support the overstretched doctors and nurses of Al-Aqsa. This will only be possible in a secure environment.
In recent weeks, the lowest number of daily casualties received at the hospital was 14 fatalities and 48 people suffering trauma. But in past days this has increased markedly, with over 120 trauma cases and dozens of dead arriving per day due to increased shelling, gunshot wounds, crush injuries from collapsed buildings, and other war-related trauma.
Al-Aqsa is the most important hospital remaining in Gaza’s Middle Area and must remain functional, and protected, to deliver its lifesaving services. Further erosion of its functionality cannot be permitted – doing so in the face of such trauma, injury and humanitarian suffering would be a moral and medical outrage.
#CeasefireNOW.
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"It's a death sentence for thousands of wounded and sick people."
Doctors Without Borders spoke with Al Jazeera about the urgent evacuation of their staff from Al-Aqsa Hospital, highlighting deteriorating conditions amid escalating Israeli attacks ⤵️
Every day, another unspeakable atrocity is committed in Gaza.
Millions of people around the world support South Africa's efforts to hold Israel to account. Why can't our government?
Dear @POTUS, I hope by now this letter has made it to your desk. It is soundly and thoughtfully written. There is a growing credibility gap between this administration’s stated core values vs actions, having a depressive effect on organizing and support around the upcoming election. It is the hope of so many here and around the world that you reconsider your unwavering military assistance for what is no longer a war, but an illegal and atrocious action exacted on innocent people. It is corrosive for any chance of lasting peace in the region. Your administration is filled with the best of the best. These resignations should give you pause. You are right. Democracy is indeed at stake.
Intensifying conflict, malnutrition and disease in Gaza are creating a deadly cycle that is threatening over 1.1 million children.
The world cannot stand by and watch. To get children the life-saving support they desperately need, we need a humanitarian ceasefire. Now.
The Biden administration has bypassed Congress to greenlight an emergency weapons sale to Israel, which has only intensified and broadened its attacks on the Gaza Strip https://t.co/AIvMOvKw5U
@SandraGathmann On November 7, Al Jazeera digital investigation found no grounds to the Israeli forces' claim that there was a Hamas tunnel under Sheikh Hamad Hospital as the bombardment on Gaza continued ⤵️
The UN agency for Palestinian refugees has criticised the Israeli army after an aid convoy was allegedly shot at in Gaza on Thursday.
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