Israel-Hamas war: Nasser hospital in Gaza ‘not functional’, says WHO chief

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The head of the World Health Organisation (WHO) said Nasser hospital in Khan Younis in Gaza is no longer functioning due to the Israeli army’s “week-long siege followed by the ongoing raid”. In a post on X, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said there are about 200 patients in the hospital, of which at least 20 need to be urgently referred to receive care elsewhere. “The cost of delays will be paid by patients’ lives. Access to the patients and hospital should be facilitated,” he wrote. The Gaza Strip’s second-largest hospital has been put “completely out of service”, a spokesman for the...