Ann Taylor describes situation following latest strike near Al-Shifa Hospital as ‘untenable and outrageous’ for medical staff
A Doctors Without Borders vehicle at the Rafah border crossing from the southern Gaza Strip into Egypt on November 1st. Photograph: Samar Abu Elouf/The New York TimesThe head of mission for Medecins Sans Frontieres has called for a “permanent ceasefire” following a recent attack outside the Al-Shifa Hospital gate in Gaza which has left hundreds feared dead and scores more injured.
She said the “entire international community” is aware of what is happening in Gaza and by “attacking medical facilities and civilians is completely against the Geneva Convention and humanitarian rights”. “There is severe overcrowding in the hospitals and in Al-Shifa Hospital which has 700 beds. Women and children comprise 70 per cent of those being affected, killed and injured. We can’t evacuate our staff and we won’t. Tonnes of supplies have been brought in by use but some of the routes in have been bombed so this situation has become very extreme.
The MSF Mission head that two million people are crammed into a 45km by 11km space which is “inhumane”.
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