three doctors, including two working for MSF, killed in a strike on a hospital in northern Gaza

Doctors Without Borders (MSF) and the Palestinian Red Crescent announced on Tuesday, November 21, that three doctors, including two working for MSF, had been killed in a strike on the al-Awda hospital in the Jabaliya camp, in the north. from Gaza. The Red Crescent denounces a strike “Israeli”. “Other medical staff, including MSF employees, were also seriously injured”specifies MSF for its part.

Al-Awda is “one of the last functioning hospitals in northern Gaza”, reports MSF in the press release published on its site, and “more than 200 patients are still there”but “cannot receive appropriate care”. The collective claims to have informed the belligerents “several times” “the presence of its staff inside the establishment, and the fact that it continued to operate. The GPS coordinates of the hospital were also communicated yesterday to the Israeli authorities”, adds the doctors’ association.

“The only safe place”

Hamas accuses Israel of deadly strikes on hospitals, while Israeli authorities accuse the Islamist movement of using these establishments as hideouts. The al-Shifa hospital, the largest in the small Palestinian territory, began to be evacuated. Two other hospitals in the northern Gaza Strip, the Indonesian Hospital and the Ahli Arab Hospital, have also requested help from the World Health Organization to facilitate evacuations, a spokesperson said on Tuesday. of the World Health Organization, Christian Lindmeier.

According to the spokesperson, “WHO’s priority is not to evacuate hospitals (which) are the only safe place where the population can go as a last resort.” However, the WHO is developing a plan to evacuate 200 patients and 50 health workers still in al-Shifa hospital.