Gaza’s health system is on its knees and cannot afford to lose another ambulance or a single hospital bed more, the World Health Organisation has warned, AFP reports.

“The situation is getting more and more horrible by the day… beyond belief, literally,” WHO spokesman Christian Lindmeier told a press briefing in Geneva.

“The health system is on its knees. Gaza cannot afford to lose any more health facilities, another single ambulance, any more hospitals… or even a single hospital bed more.”

“Children and people begging and crying for water — we’re at that level, where the most normal and basic supplies are not available any more,” Lindmeier said.

Lindmeier said a convoy was supposed to take medical supplies to Al-Ahli Arab Hospital in Gaza City today and evacuate 12 patients to the south but was suspended because of the security situation. “This callousness must end. We need a ceasefire and we need it now.”