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Gaza’s two biggest hospitals cease operations as WHO warns of rising deaths

The situation Gaza’s Al-Shifa Hospital has been described as "dire and perilous" [Bashar Taleb/AFP]

Gaza’s two largest hospitals have stopped taking new patients due to Israeli bombardment and shortages of medicine and fuel amid reports of rising deaths among patients and medical staff.

Al-Shifa and Al-Quds, Gaza’s biggest and second-biggest hospitals, respectively, said on Sunday that they had suspended operations as the World Health Organisation called for an immediate ceasefire to prevent rising deaths.

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