Several personnel members, including two nurses, were injured in the strike at the Kuwaiti Campo Hospital in Khan Younis, according to Gaza’s Ministry of Health and Health, UN spokesman, Stéphane Durric, told journalists in the regular news session in New York.
The incident follows a separate strike on Sunday at the Arab Hospital Al-Ahli in the city of Gaza, which had been a key installation that treated the victims of Israeli air attacks in the north.
“The latest attacks in hospitals even more paralyze Gaza’s medical care system,” Dujarric said.
“There are currently very few beds available in hospitals and patients are being housed in tents.”
He added that, according to the UN World Health Organization (WHO), only 21 of Gaza’s 36 hospitals remain “partially functional” and almost all have suffered some damage to the conflict.
In addition, he informed that, according to health partners, there is an urgent need for thousands of blood units for operations that save lives.
In addition, there are serious concerns that food stores have reached “very low levels”, since no help has entered Gaza in weeks.
Meanwhile, in the midst of devastation, there was a rare moment of relief when the humanitarians in Gaza successfully installed a backup generator at the Kamal Adwan hospital to feed a water system that produces 20 cubic meters of clean water per hour.
Mr. Dujarric reiterated the UN call to all parties that ensure that civilians are respected and always protected, and have the basic needs to survive.
“All hostages must be immediately and unconditionally released, and a high fire must be restored and renewed without delay,” he added.
