2024-07-04 07:13:15
The World Health Organization’s representative in the Palestinian territories, Rick Peeperkorn, said on Tuesday that the European Gaza Hospital in Khan Younis was almost empty after staff and patients fled following the Israeli military’s order for residents in surrounding areas to evacuate, according to Reuters.
He pointed out that “the hospital staff and patients have decided to evacuate now,” adding that only 3 patients remain in the hospital. He concluded: “We appeal to save the Gaza European Hospital and not to expose it to any harm.”
In turn, the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA) estimated today (Tuesday) that the new order issued by the Israeli army to evacuate neighborhoods in Khan Yunis and Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip affects about a quarter of a million people, according to what was reported by the Agence France-Presse.
“We have seen people moving to other places, families moving to other places, people starting to pack up and trying to leave this area,” UNRWA spokeswoman Louise Waterridge told reporters via video link from Gaza, adding that the agency “estimates that about 250,000 people have been affected by these orders.”
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2024-07-04 07:13:15