Fighting, fuel shortages and Israeli raids put the Gaza Strip’s second-largest hospital completely out of service on Sunday, local and UN health officials said, as Israel battled Hamas militants in the devastated Palestinian enclave.
The Nasser Hospital in the southern city of Khan Younis still sheltered scores of patients suffering from war wounds and Gaza’s worsening health crisis, but there was no power and not enough staff to treat them all, health officials said.
“It’s gone completely out of service,” Gaza health ministry spokesperson Ashraf al-Qidra told Reuters.
“There are only four medical teams — 25 staff — currently caring for patients inside the facility,” he
