20 February 2024
An additional 107 Palestinians were killed and 145 injured in Israeli attacks on Gaza between Sunday and Monday, as the death toll in the war-ravaged territory surpassed 29,000, with more than 69,000 Palestinians injured, the UN reports.
Israeli forces arrested 70 medical staff at the Nasser Hospital complex in Khan Younis on Sunday where eight patients died due to a lack of oxygen, the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) has reported citing Gaza’s Health Ministry.
Fourteen patients were evacuated from the hospital on Sunday by the World Health Organization and negotiations are under way with Israeli forces calling for the evacuation of all remaining patients from the complex, OCHA reports.
The situation at Khan Younis’s Al Amal Hospital is also critical after being under Israeli siege for 28 days. Food is nearly exhausted and fuel is running out to produce electricity to keep high-risk patients alive, the UN notes in its latest flash report.
On Sunday, the hospital’s third floor was damaged by artillery shelling and its central maintenance room was destroyed, OCHA said citing the Palestine Red Crescent Society.
Source: Aljazeera
