The World Health Organization (WHO) on Saturday detailed the grave humanitarian disaster unfolding in northern Gaza, significantly at Al-Shifa Hospital after a joint UN humanitarian evaluation crew risked their lives to entry the hospital and consider the dire scenario amid the Israeli airstrikes in Hamas-controlled strip.

The mission, coordinated with the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) to safe a secure route, befell amid heavy combating in shut proximity to the hospital, in line with the WHO.

During their one-hour mission contained in the hospital, the crew, which included public well being specialists, logistics officers and safety employees from OCHA, UNDSS, UNMAS/UNOPS, UNRWA and WHO, described the scenario as “desperate” and the hospital itself as a “death zone.”

“Signs of shelling and gunfire were evident. The team saw a mass grave at the entrance of the hospital and was told more than 80 people were buried there,” the WHO assertion stated.

Once the most important and most superior referral hospital in Gaza, Al-Shifa has been crippled because of clear water, gas, medicines, and meals shortages, WHO stated.

The hospital, unable to confess new sufferers, now directs the injured and sick to the overwhelmed Indonesian Hospital. Currently, 25 well being employees and 291 sufferers stay at Al-Shifa, together with 32 critically unwell infants, 2 people in intensive care with out air flow, and 22 dialysis sufferers going through compromised entry to life-saving therapy, in line with the UN well being company.

“WHO and partners are urgently developing plans for the immediate evacuation of the remaining patients, staff and their families,” it stated.

“Over the next 24–72 hours, pending guarantees of safe passage by parties to the conflict, additional missions are being arranged to urgently transport patients” to different hospitals within the south of Gaza.

WHO repeated its name for an instantaneous ceasefire and sustained humanitarian help, saying choices for medical care within the small coastal enclave have been dwindling.