World Health Organization (WHO) Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said the UN agency’s team had succeeded gain access to Nasser Hospitalin the south of the Gaza Strip, after Israel banned entry and after an army raid on the facilities.

“As a result, it made it easier referral of 14 seriously ill patients to a doctor to save their lives,” Tedros said on social media.

Surgeon Athanasios Gargavanis, who participated in “challenging” healthcare missionThe video posted by Tedros indicated that of the 14 patients referred to other centers, eight cannot walk and two require constant oxygen, one due to a tracheostomy and the other due to intubation after a head injury.

The WHO director-general also stressed that nine patients were being treated at European medical centers, as well as others run by countries such as the United Arab Emirates and Indonesia, while another five were being treated at Al Aqsa Hospital, in the city centre. Gaza Strip.

“The hospital continues to experience severe shortages of food, essential medicines and oxygen. “There is no running water or electricity here, except for a backup generator that powers some rescue vehicles.”

Finally, he added that both the WHO teams, the Palestinian Red Crescent and the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) “need constant and secure accessto refer patients “who are in urgent need of care.”

The Israeli army confirmed this last Thursday. attack on Nasser hospital, located in the city of Khan Yunis. The hospital is the largest remaining partially functioning hospital in the Palestinian enclave, and Gaza authorities have since accused Israeli forces of turning the facilities into a “hospital.”military barracks“.

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According to Israel, during the raid they detained 20 alleged “terrorists” who allegedly participated in the October 7 attacks carried out by the Islamic Resistance Movement (HAMAS). They also discovered cars stolen from Israel and medicines sent to Gaza for people kidnapped by the Israelis, with their names written on them.

UN High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) spokesperson Ravina Shamdasani expressed concern about the attack, a “raid” that is part of “pattern of attacks” by Israel on critical Palestinian infrastructure.