 "Health aid agency Doctors Without Borders loses contact with staff in Al-Shifa Hospital")
Aid agency Doctors Without Borders has said that it has lost all contact with its staff inside Gaza’s largest healthcare facility, Al-Shifa Hospital, amid reports of “heavy bombing” in the area. “Over the last few hours, the attacks against Al-Shifa Hospital have dramatically intensified. [Doctors Without Borders] staff at the hospital reported a catastrophic situation inside,” the humanitarian group said in a post on X, formerly Twitter.
UPDATE: Over the last few hours, the attacks against Al-Shifa Hospital have dramatically intensified. MSF staff at the hospital reported a catastrophic situation inside just a few hours ago: https://t.co/rjR472FiA5.
— Doctors w/o Borders (@MSF_USA) November 11, 2023
“We’re currently unable to contact any of our staff inside Al-Shifa, and we are extremely concerned about the safety of patients and the medical staff. Patients are still in the hospital, some in critical condition and unable to move,” it added.
Fighting intensified overnight into Saturday near Gaza City’s overcrowded hospitals, which Palestinian officials said were hit by explosions and gunfire.
“Israel is now launching a war on Gaza City hospitals,” said Mohammad Abu Selmeyah, director of Al Shifa Hospital.
Gaza officials said missiles landed in a courtyard of Al Shifa, the enclave’s biggest hospital, in the early hours of Friday, damaged the Indonesian Hospital and reportedly set fire to the Nasser Rantissi paediatric cancer hospital.
Israel’s military said later that a misfired projectile launched by Palestinian militants in Gaza had hit Shifa.
Israel has always claimed that the Al-Shifa Hospital is Hamas’ operation base which the terror group uses to hide weapons, a claim Hamas has denied.
World Health Organisation Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said that health workers the group was in contact with at Shifa had been forced to leave the hospital in search of safety.
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