More than 20,000 wounded people are still trapped in Gaza, according to Doctors Without Borders (MSF), despite a tiny handful of evacuations of “severely injured” people to Egypt, AFP reports.

“There are still over 20,000 injured people in Gaza with limited access to healthcare due to the siege,” MSF said.

Son of Palestinian woman Salwa Najar lies in a bed as his mother sits by, at a school turned to a shelter, as hospitals are overwhelmed, amid the ongoing conflict between Israel and Palestinian Islamist group Hamas, in Khan Younis, in the southern Gaza Strip. — Reuters
Son of Palestinian woman Salwa Najar lies in a bed as his mother sits by, at a school turned to a shelter, as hospitals are overwhelmed, amid the ongoing conflict between Israel and Palestinian Islamist group Hamas, in Khan Younis, in the southern Gaza Strip. — Reuters

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