The variety of displaced folks arriving at Nasser Medical Complicated continues to extend, with new shelters being arrange within the facility’s automobile park and many individuals sleeping on the bottom within the open.
The hospital situated in Khan Younis, the place groups from Docs With out Borders (Medecins Sans Frontieres, or MSF) present surgical care to sufferers with trauma and burn accidents, has additionally seen a relentless inflow of recent sufferers, pushing its capability to breaking level.
“The hospital has been receiving multiple severely injured patients nearly every hour,” mentioned Chris Hook, MSF medical coordinator in Khan Younis. “With the situation as it is in the hospital – there is no available space any more – it really is a terrible situation. Everyone is genuinely worried about what will come next.”
Israel’s navy mentioned its fighter jets and helicopters struck targets in Gaza together with “tunnel shafts, command centers and weapons storage facilities”. It acknowledged “extensive aerial attacks in the Khan Younis area”.
“In a military campaign that has lasted weeks, with only a brief respite, the speed and scale of the bombing continue to plumb the depths of brutality,” mentioned MSF’s Hook. “Almost two million people are left without options. The only solution is an immediate and sustained ceasefire and the unrestricted supply of aid to the entirety of the Gaza Strip.”