Fears are rising over the status of Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital in central Deir el-Balah, where 600 patients and healthcare staff went missing, Al Jazeera reports.
International medical charity Doctors Without Borders (MSF) says it evacuated its medical staff. A bullet penetrated a wall of the hospital’s intensive care unit on Friday and “drone attacks and sniper fire were just a few hundred metres from the hospital”, said Carolina Lopez, MSF’s emergency coordinator there.
The hospital received 150 to 200 wounded people daily in recent weeks.
The International Rescue Committee (IRC) and Medical Aid for Palestinians said it was also forced to withdraw from the hospital. “The amount of injuries being brought in over the last few days has been horrific,” surgeon Nick Maynard with the IRC medical team said.
