More than 190 wounded people treated in hospitals supported by MSF after new attacks in Gaza

At Nasser Hospital, teams from the Ministry of Health and MSF received 22 deceased and 60 injured people, including several children. At Al Aqsa Hospital, 77 injured patients were treated, some of whom had to be transferred to the MSF field hospital. Finally, at Al Shifa Hospital, also supported by MSF, the Ministry of Health teams received 27 deceased and 56 injured people.

Since the beginning of the ceasefire, Israeli forces have killed 211 people, according to Ministry of Health data. Just yesterday, attacks across the Gaza Strip caused at least 104 deaths — including 46 children and 20 women — and 253 additional injuries, among them 78 children.

MSF has repeatedly called for a permanent ceasefire to end the overwhelming level of deaths and catastrophic injuries suffered by civilians.

So far, the organization’s teams continue to witness the consequences of repeated violations of this ceasefire, which perpetuate the ongoing genocide in Gaza.

"A deliberate attack on civilians"

Dr. Morten Rostrup, an MSF emergency doctor at Al Aqsa Hospital, describes the severity of the situation after the attacks:

At 5 a.m. today [yesterday], I heard a big blast pretty nearby. When I got to Al-Aqsa hospital in the morning, I went straight to the emergency room and there were several severely wounded patients. I saw in the red area three women with severe injuries.

One was totally in shock due to a lot of bleeding, and also had a head injury and an injury to her leg. There was another woman with a cerebral injury, and yet another one with a pulmonary injury. And I also saw three children who were severely injured.

It turned out that there were 77 patients admitted to the emergency department in Al-Aqsa hospital today — 41 male and 36 female. There were 31 children among the injured patients coming here. Fifteen people were killed.

I must say I was pretty shocked to see what was going on. This was an attack deliberately on civilians. This is totally unacceptable.

What is going on? Do we really call this a ceasefire? Can you have a ceasefire and then you attack civilians and then you say you have again a ceasefire? What kind of warfare is this? It's totally, totally unacceptable. I really have a problem understanding that it is possible to bomb civilians this way, because there is no doubt this is an attack on civilians.

We had to transfer a lot of patients from Al-Aqsa hospital to the other field hospitals. I know that the MSF field hospital received quite some former patients from Al-Aqsa, because the capacity here was not sufficient to take care of the patients. So they were stabilized and given blood and then they were referred to some of the other field hospitals.

You get really angry when you see this going on."