A north Gaza hospital that Israeli troops raided is no longer functioning and patients including babies have been evacuated, putting the enclave’s collapsing health services in further peril, Reuters quotes World Health Organisation official as saying.

The WHO had said it was urgently seeking information about the hospital. “What we understand is it’s not functional anymore,” Richard Peeperkorn, WHO representative for Gaza, told Reuters.

“Many health workers were reportedly detained”, he said, adding: “We cannot afford to lose any hospitals.”

He also said that about 4,000 displaced people taking refuge in the grounds of the Nasser medical complex in the southern city of Khan Younis were at risk as Israel pursues military operations there.

“They told our staff that they were really afraid,” Peeperkorn said.