Al-Awda Hospital under siege: WHO

The director-general of the World Health Organisation (WHO) raised the alarm on Tuesday about the safety of health workers in Al-Awda Hospital in Gaza’s northern city of Jabalia. 

The hospital, which is one of the few health facilities still operating in northern Gaza, and the only hospital to offer maternity and orthopaedic surgery care, has been under siege for two days. 

We are deeply concerned about the safety of the remaining patients and hospital staff,” he said in a post on X. “We appeal for their protection, for humanitarian access and an immediate ceasefire.”