Doctors Without Borders, known by its French acronym, MSF, says an Israeli air attack that hit the Israeli-designated “safe zone” of al-Mawasi damaged the group’s medical clinic in the area, Al Jazeera reports.

“The blast was huge. We didn’t receive an official evacuation order from Israeli forces, we were notified by the residents,” Myriam, an MSF coordinator, said in a post on X.

“Both staff and patients fled the clinic. We later found the facility with equipment destroyed, and shrapnel damaged the desalination plant,” she added.

MSF condemned Israel’s use of heavy weapons in zones it had designed safe, saying the attack is “further proof of the blatant disregard for Palestinian lives and humanitarian law”.