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 Medical doctors With out Borders (Medecins Sans Frontieres, or MSF) present surgical care to sufferers with trauma and burn accidents, has additionally seen a continuing inflow of recent sufferers, pushing its capability to breaking level.
“The hospital has been receiving a number of severely injured sufferers practically each hour,” mentioned Chris Hook, MSF medical coordinator in Khan Younis. “With the state of affairs as it’s within the hospital – there is no such thing as a accessible area any extra – it truly is a horrible state of affairs. Everyone seems to be genuinely frightened about what is going to come subsequent.”
Israel’s navy mentioned its fighter jets and helicopters struck targets in Gaza together with “tunnel shafts, command facilities and weapons storage amenities”. It acknowledged “in depth aerial assaults within the Khan Younis space”.
“In a navy marketing campaign that has lasted weeks, with solely a short respite, the velocity and scale of the bombing proceed to plumb the depths of brutality,” mentioned MSF’s Hook. “Nearly two million persons are left with out choices. The one resolution is a direct and sustained ceasefire and the unrestricted provide of help to the whole thing of the Gaza Strip.”