A team with the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) has managed to get access to the Al-Shifa Hospital weeks after it sustained heavy damages from Israeli army attacks.

Olga Cherevko, a member of the team, said in a video they managed the access after several denied and aborted missions as UN access to the north of Gaza remains “severely constrained”.

“This hospital has effectively become a shelter for thousands of people looking for safety. Equipment, fuel, water and food are all in very short supply,” Cherevko said.

“This doctor I met, she told me ‘We’re so alone in this world, they have forgotten us, the world must not grow numb to the suffering of the people in Gaza, we all bleed the same blood’.”