Patients said to have been moved on donkey carts from evacuated hospital, in situation described as ‘catastrophic’
The Abu Yousef al-Najjar hospital was evacuated after the Israeli army took control of the Palestinian side of the Rafah border crossing.The Abu Yousef al-Najjar hospital was evacuated after the Israeli army took control of the Palestinian side of the Rafah border crossing.
With the seizure of Rafah, Israel now controls all of Gaza’s crossings for the first time since it withdrew troops and settlers from the territory nearly two decades ago, though for most of that time it has maintained a blockade with Egypt’s cooperation. The Rafah crossing is the only place where people can enter and exit.
There are also fears for increasing numbers suffering from widespread outbreaks of hepatitis and gastroenteritis, a consequence of overcrowding, insanitary conditions and rising temperatures as summer approaches, while the main maternity hospital in Rafah has now been forced to stop admitting patients.
Rafah’s pre-war population of 300,000 has grown to 1.2 million with an influx of those displaced from elsewhere in Gaza during the seven-month conflict. Hams said many of his colleagues’ homes had been destroyed or were now full of relatives forced to flee from elsewhere in Gaza.
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