Relatives mourn over the our bodies of individuals killed when the tent the place they have been sheltering was hit by Israeli bombardment, on the morgue of the Nasser medical middle in Khan Younis within the southern Gaza Strip on Jan. 4.

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Relatives mourn over the our bodies of individuals killed when the tent the place they have been sheltering was hit by Israeli bombardment, on the morgue of the Nasser medical middle in Khan Younis within the southern Gaza Strip on Jan. 4.

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TEL AVIV, Israel — Doctors Without Borders says the biggest remaining medical facility within the Gaza Strip, Nasser Hospital, is now unable to offer vital medical care.

The nonprofit medical group stated in an announcement on Friday that there at the moment are few locations for many who want care in Khan Younis to go.

The Israeli military stated on Tuesday that it had encircled Khan Younis, Gaza’s second largest metropolis, and was battling Hamas fighters. Israel intensified fighting this week and ordered the evacuation of everybody in sure neighborhoods, including the hospital.

Nasser Hospital is without doubt one of the major medical amenities operating in Khan Younis. Gaza’s well being ministry reported on Wednesday that nobody was in a position to enter or exit due to bombardment.

The hospital was additionally sheltering hundreds of displaced Palestinians who had escaped preventing elsewhere in Gaza. Doctors Without Borders, which additionally goes by its French acronym MSF, stated many individuals together with many of the hospital employees fled through the evacuation order. It stated that just about 350 sufferers stay contained in the hospital and are caught as a result of it is too harmful to get out.

“These systematic attacks against health care are unacceptable and must end now so that the wounded can get the care they need,” Guillemette Thomas, MSF’s medical coordinator for Gaza and the West Bank, stated in an announcement.

MSF described medical doctors feeling helpless contained in the hospital as they advised of dire situations corresponding to an absence of beds and different fundamental provides. One physician quoted by MSF stated medical doctors have been squeezing out blood from gauze and sterilizing it to be reused.

Israel continues to escalate its assault in Gaza as a response to the Hamas assault on Oct. 7 that killed virtually 1,200 individuals and noticed some 250 others taken hostage. About 130 individuals are nonetheless in captivity in Gaza, in response to Israel. Gaza’s well being ministry has reported that the variety of Palestinians killed has topped 25,000.