“These are the only two functional hospitals remaining in northern Gaza,” Tedros said.

“Ensuring their ability to deliver health services is imperative.”

Israeli missiles struck the emergency department of Jabalia’s Kamal Adwan Hospital, “The first missile when it hit, it hit the entrance of the emergency department. We tried to enter, and then a second missile hit, and the third hit the building nearby,” said Hussam Abu Safia, the head of hospital.

“We cannot go back inside to them … The emergency department provides a service for children, the elderly and people inside the departments of the hospital.

“Residents and medics said Israeli tanks were besieging another Jabalia hospital, Al-Awda Hospital, for the third day. In Geneva, WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said northern Gaza’s sick and wounded were running out of options.

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