[News] Israeli army bars access of UN aid convoy to Nasser Hospital in Gaza

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Israeli army bars access of UN aid convoy to Nasser Hospital in Gaza

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GAZA, (PIC)

The health ministry in Gaza said on Friday that the Israeli occupation army
blocked a World Health Organization (WHO) aid convoy and top UN officials
from reaching the besieged Nasser Hospital in Khan Yunis.

In a statement, the ministry said that the convoy, which consists of two
trucks carrying food, water and fuel, had been stopped by the Israeli army
on the road for several hours, while bulldozers dug holes in front of and
behind the convoy.

There was no information if the Israeli army released the convoy later and
allowed it to go back or reach the hospital.

In this regard, Palestinian minister of health Mai Kayla accused the
Israeli army of committing a genocidal crime against the remaining
displaced civilians, patients and medical staff at the Nasser Hospital.

Kayla warned that there would be a humanitarian disaster in the Gaza Strip
if the hospital stopped providing medical services, describing the facility
as the backbone of the health system in the war-torn territory.

For its part, WHO described the reports emerging from the Nasser hospital
as “deeply alarming” and expressed its concern over the safety of the
patients, health workers, and civilians sheltering at the facility.

WHO spokesperson Tarik Jasarevic told journalists at a press briefing in
Geneva that the UN health body was trying to gain urgent access to the
hospital.

“We really need to get there to bring fuel so [the] hospital can continue
to function and those patients who are still there can continue to receive
medical care,” he said, also stressing the need to assess the conditions of
patients and for their safe referral to other facilities.

“We have been saying all this time…that patients, health workers and
civilians who are seeking refuge in hospitals deserve safety and not a
burial in those places of healing,” he added.
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