The World Health Organisation has said that Gaza’s largest hospital had been reduced to ashes by Israel’s latest siege, leaving an “empty shell” with many bodies, TRT World reports.

“WHO and partners managed to reach al-Shifa — once the backbone of the health system in Gaza, which is now an empty shell with human graves after the latest siege,” agency chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus wrote on X, formerly Twitter.

He said the team had seen “at least five dead bodies during the mission”.

Israeli forces pulled out of Al Shifa hospital in Gaza City on Monday after a two-week military raid, during which it said it had battled Hamas inside what was once the Palestinian territory’s most important medical complex.

A WHO-led mission finally accessed the hospital on Friday, after multiple failed attempts since March 25, the UN health agency said on Saturday, describing the massive destruction.

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