The Indonesian hospital was coming under “extreme pressure”, the WHO executive director Michael Ryan said. Only 10 out of Gaza’s 36 hospitals remain open, the World Health Organization said on Monday. Broadcast footage showed wounded people and sheltering civilians packed into its corridors, seeking treatment or safety from the fighting.Įfforts were being made to coordinate a rescue of patients with the Red Cross, the health ministry said, although it said it had received no commitments from Israel about allowing safe passage. The ministry of health said 700 people, including medical staff, were crowded into the Indonesian hospital, the last hospital operating in northern Gaza. There was no immediate comment from the Israel Defense Forces, although in the past the Israeli military said it believed a Hamas tunnel entrance was near to the Indonesian hospital and that missiles were launched into Israel from nearby. The ministry of health in Gaza said it believed 12 people had been killed in shelling overnight and that it feared a repeat of what happened at al-Shifa hospital complex, which was surrounded and raided by Israeli forces last week.
