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HOSPITALS
Two-thirds of Gaza’s hospitals have now ceased functioning and losing Nasser would curtail the limited trauma care still available.
In a statement on Thursday, Hamas denied claims aired by released Israeli hostage Sharon Aloni in an interview on CNN that she and other prisoners had been detained in rooms in Nasser Hospital.
The group “considers this to be in line with the lies of Israel and its old and new incitement against hospitals to justify its destruction of them”.
In November, Israel stormed Al-Shifa hospital in northern Gaza and showed what it said were Hamas weapons and equipment found on the premises.
MSF head of mission for Palestine Leo Cans, who reached Nasser Hospital, said fighting had come “very close”.
“The wounded people that we take care of, many of them lost their legs, lost their arms,” he said. “There are really complex wounds that require a lot of surgery. And we don’t have the capacity to do this now.”
Israelis marked the first birthday of the youngest hostage, baby Kfir Bibas, who was not among scores of women and children freed during a truce in November.
Hamas says it is no longer holding children, and that Kfir and his family were killed in an Israeli air strike, though it has released no images confirming their deaths.
“His whereabouts are unknown,” Israeli President Isaac Herzog said at the World Economic Forum in Davos, sitting next to a photograph of the baby. “I call upon the entire universe to work endlessly to free Kfir and all the hostages.”
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