WHO ‘appalled’ by Israel attack on northern Gaza’s last functioning major hospital

Kamal Adwan in Beit Lahia was partially destroyed and critical patients are at grave risk, the UN body says

The World Health Organization says it is appalled" by an Israeli raid which it said had shut down and partly destroyed the last major hospital still functioning in northern Gaza.

Israel's systematic dismantling of the health system" combined with a siege of the population in the north of the coastal strip over the past 80 days puts the lives of the 75,000 Palestinians remaining in the area at risk", the WHO said.