The head of the World Health Organisation (WHO) has urged Israel to protect civilians trapped in a siege of the only hospital left in northern Gaza, as Palestinian health officials say soldiers have rounded up all males over the age of 15 and taken them to an unknown location.
The head of the UN agency, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, sounded the alarm about Kamal Adwan Hospital where he said 65 patients, who need intensive care treatment, and 45 members of medical staff are trapped. It is the last remaining medical centre in the north of the Hamas-run Gaza Strip, after a similar siege and deadly raid on north Gaza’s Al-Awda hospital this week.
