“There are limited vehicles available, there’s limited fuel, the roads are so dangerous, the situation is so unsafe. People are really at this stage carrying what they can in their hands and moving. It’s devastating,”

Louise Wateridge of the UN agency for Palestinian refugees (Unrwa) said,
“[It’s] different from previous displacements, when we’ve seen trucks and vehicles loaded up.”

The European hospital in Khan Younis also now stands empty after all its patients and medical personnel left. Late on Tuesday, the WHO announced that the European hospital in eastern Khan Younis was completely empty, after its 320 patients and all of its medical staff left in response to an evacuation order for the surrounding area.

Most of the patients had been referred to Nasser hospital, which was now at full capacity and had a shortage of medical supplies and drugs for surgery, it warned.

An Israeli defence agency said it did not order the European hospital’s patients and staff to leave. But the head of the emergency department said the Hamas-run health ministry had said they should evacuate.

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