The European Hospital in Khan Younis has closed its gates after Israeli military ordered that all residents and patients leave it amid violent strikes in the southern Gaza city.
The Israeli order forced medical workers and to flee without making use of the medical equipment, according to local sources.
Later, the medical equipment was transferred to about eight kilometers west of Khan Younis to Nasser Hospital, which its surrounding was also attacked with two missiles.
People were also seen sleeping in the streets of Khan Younis as having no refuge.
Unrwa said that the latest orders have pushed people to set up tents among the rubble.
“Forced displacement is once again pushing people to look for safety where there is none in Gaza,” the agency wrote on social media platform X.
The United Nations has estimated that up to 250,000 people are impacted by the Israeli military order for civilians to leave Al-Qarara, Bani Suhaila and other localities near the territory of 2.4 million’s second city of Khan Younis.
On Tuesday, the UN humanitarian coordinator for Gaza said that 80% of the population, 1.9 million people, were now displaced.
The European Hospital was one of the last remaining operational hospitals in the southern part of the Gaza Strip and the possibility of repeating it again after the invasion is likely to happen.
Gaza Government media office said on June 27, that 33 hospitals and 66 m medical centers have been rendered out of service since last October.
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