Ghebreyesus: The Israeli authorities prevented the World Health Organization team from entering the Nasser Medical Complex

Geneva-(ST)- Director of the World Health Organization Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, affirmed that the Israeli occupation authorities prevented a medical team affiliated with the organization from reaching patients at the Nasser Medical Complex in Khan Yunis in the Gaza Strip, which is subject to a stifling Israeli siege.

Ghebreyesus said In a blog On the X platform today: “The Nasser complex in Gaza is no longer functioning after a siege that has been going on for about a week, accompanied by continuous raids,” adding: “Yesterday and today, the World Health Organization team was not allowed to enter this hospital to assess the condition of the patients there and provide the medical services they desperately need, despite “It has already arrived at the medical complex building to deliver fuel with other partners.”

Ghebreyesus added that there are still about 200 patients in the hospital, including at least twenty patients who need to be transferred immediately to other hospitals to receive urgent medical treatment, warning that any delays the patients will pay with their lives.

The Palestinian Ministry of Health confirmed yesterday that the situation in the Nasser complex is dangerous and catastrophic, as the occupation evacuated the maternity and surgery department and transferred the patients to the old Nasser building under bombardment and direct gun threat, adding: The hospital’s patients, including children, women and the elderly, are at risk of death at any moment as a result of the applied siege on the complex, where five patients died inside as a result of the cessation of oxygen in the light of the occupation’s cutting off electricity to the entire building.

Hanan Shamout