WHO chief says agency allowed into Nasser Hospital after IDF operation there

World Health Organization chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus says that after two days of being denied, the UN agency was finally allowed inside the Nasser Hospital in Khan Younis today to assess patients after an IDF operation there.

He says 14 critical patients were moved to other hospitals, warning that there are still more than 180 patients and 15 medical staff inside the hospital, which is “experiencing an acute shortage of food, basic medical supplies, and oxygen.”

There is no tap water and no electricity, except for a backup generator maintaining some lifesaving machines, Tedros adds.

The IDF said it detained about 100 suspects at the hospital, and also that it found medicines there that had been sent for hostages but were never delivered to them, as well as vehicles stolen from Israel on October 7. Israel said some of the terror operatives detained at the hospital were dressed up as hospital staff, and that released hostages said they had been held at the hospital and indicated that bodies of hostages could still be there.

The Gaza health ministry said seven patients, including a child, had died in the hospital since Friday due to power cuts, and “70 staff members, including intensive care doctors,” had been arrested.