JERUSALEM: An official from the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) expressed concern over the state of Nasser Hospital in the city of Khan Younis in the southern Gaza Strip.
“The conditions are appalling. There are dead bodies in the corridors. Patients are in a desperate situation,’ said Jonathan Whittall, the senior humanitarian affairs officer at OCHA in the occupied Palestinian territory.
“This has become a place of death, not a place of healing,” he added.
In a video posted on X, Whittall said he along with teams from the World Health Organization (WHO) and the Palestine Red Crescent Society carried out an evacuation mission of the most critical patients that have been trapped inside the hospital.
He added that they tried to reach the hospital for more than a week to provide fuel, water and medical supplies.
Noting that they came there with four ambulances, he said “it is not enough.”
“We’ve been denied consistently. Patients have passed away due to a lack of appropriate
care, and we’ve found critical patients that need to be urgently referred,” he said.
Source: Palestine News and Information Agency – WAFA