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Médecins sans Frontières/ Doctors Without Borders (MSF)—is horrified by the killing of two MSF doctors, Dr Mahmoud Abu Nujaila and Dr Ahmad Al Sahar, and a third doctor working with Al Awda, Dr Ziad Al-Tatari, following a strike on Al Awda Hospital, one of the last remaining functional hospitals in northern Gaza.
In a statement, Sana Beg, Director of Communications for MSF South Asia, said, “The health system in Gaza has collapsed. Most hospitals are out of service as electricity and water have been cut due to lack of fuel. Healthcare facilities have suffered extensive damage in attacks. The wounded and sick are being denied their basic right to access medical care safely and with dignity. Medical staff working in Gaza, even though utterly exhausted, are doing what they can in impossible conditions.They should not have to choose between saving their own lives and those of patients.”
Beg also said that medical personnel, health facilities and ambulances need to be protected and hospitals must remain a sanctuary for people seeking care.
Dr Abu Nujaila and Dr Al Sahar were in the facility when it was hit on the third and fourth floors. Other medical staff, including MSF staff, were also severely injured. More than 200 patients still in Al Awda must be urgently evacuated to other functioning hospitals. “Seeing doctors killed next to hospital beds is beyond tragic, and this must stop now,” as per the statement.
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