Malhis, who returned home after studying in Turkiye, worked as an obstetrician-gynaecologist at the Al-Shifa Hospital for nearly 25 years, but had to go to make a desperate escape to Egypt when the hospital was rendered unusable. From Egypt, she went to Turkiye.
The Director of the World Health Organization has described as ‘heartbreaking’ the situation in Gaza hospitals and renewed calls for protection for all hospitals across the besieged Gaza strip.
Two weeks after Israeli forces withdraw from southern Gaza Strip, several bodies were seen being uncovered by an excavator in the courtyard of the ruins of Al-Shifa Hospital.
WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said in a post on the X platform that a team of WHO and partners had managed to tour al-Shifa to assess the situation in the hospital days after the Israeli occupation forces ended a two-week siege and attacks on the facility which caused massive destruction in it and led to scores of deaths among patients ...
The head of the World Health Organization (WHO) has warned that that further fatalities could happen if the patients in al-Shifa Hospital are not quickly evacuated.
Moroccan women took to the streets of Cassablanca to express outrage over Israeli soldiers raping and killing Palestinian women in al-Shifa Hospital in Gaza.
Eyewitnesses have revealed another aspect of Israeli genocidal war in the Gaza Strip as the regime armored vehicles ran over ambulances and bodies of Palestinians in al-Shifa Hospital.
The Gaza media office says it received reports indicating Israeli forces threatening to destroy the medical center with the medics and patients inside.
The Palestinian resistance movement Hamas says the recent Israeli raid on al-Shifa Hospital underlines the ‘confusion and loss of hope’ in Israeli army to achieve its goals in the besieged Gaza Strip.
A team of WHO and other UN agencies was able to deliver medical supplies to the hospital on Saturday. Al-Shifa is the largest medical facility in the besieged and bombarded Gaza Strip.
More than 100 victims of al-Shifa Hospital have been buried in a mass grave as four-day ceasefire begins in Gaza. The number of Palestinians killed since October 7th operation al-Aqsa Storm tops 14,532, more than 6,000 of them children. As many as 6,800 Palestinians are still unaccounted for.
The Israeli army had given all those inside the Al-Shifa Medical Complex a one-hour deadline, forcing even patients in critical need of medical care to leave the healthcare facility.
The World Health Organization (WHO), in its latest assessment of the situation in Gaza, has warned of the desperate situation in Gaza saying al-Shifa Hospital has turned into a “death zone” following the latest Israeli atrocities against the health center.