The World Health Organisation (WHO) has said a humanitarian team finally reached one of northern Gaza’s only functioning hospitals at the weekend to deliver fuel, food and medicines, and found “appalling” conditions.

According to AFP, Kamal Adwan Hospital is located in Beit Lahia, a city at the centre of an intense Israeli military operation that it says is aimed at preventing Hamas from regrouping in northern Gaza.

WHO chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said on X that after multiple attempts, the United Nations health agency and partners reached the facility “two days ago, amid hostilities and explosions in the vicinity of the hospital during the mission”.

The team, he said, had “delivered 5,000 litres of fuel, food and medicines, and transferred three patients and six companions to Al-Shifa”, the Palestinian territory’s main hospital.

“The conditions in the hospital are simply appalling,” he said. “We urge for the protection of health care and for this hell to stop! Ceasefire!”