Medical charity Doctors Without Borders yesterday said the staff at Nasser Hospital in Gaza’s Khan Younis are working in dire conditions, facing severe shortages of medical supplies.
“There is no room for all of the patients. We have patients in corridors… and more come in today, dead and wounded,” Claire Menara, an emergency coordinator with Doctors Without Borders, told Al Jazeera.
The NGO, known by its French name MSF, blamed the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation’s aid distribution system for chaos at the scene in the southern Gaza town of Rafah on Sunday that killed 31 Palestinians.
UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres yesterday called for an independent investigation into the deaths of Palestinians near the aid distribution site.
Meanwhile, a man yelling “Free Palestine” used a makeshift flamethrower to torch protesters rallying in support of Israeli hostages, injuring at least eight people in the US state of Colorado on Sunday evening.
The FBI said it was investigating the incident as a “targeted terror attack” and identified the suspect as 45-year-old Mohamed Sabry Soliman, reports AFP.
In Gaza, civil defence agency said an Israeli strike on a home in the northern town of Jabalia killed 14 people yesterday.
Israeli forces destroyed the only facility for kidney dialysis patients in the north of the enclave. The troops also demolished the wall of the European Gaza Hospital in Khan Younis, while also carrying out bulldozing activities in the vicinity of the hospital.
On Sunday evening, Qatar and Egypt announced plans to step up efforts for truce negotiations, as the Palestinian group Hamas said it was prepared to “immediately” hold a fresh round of talks.
Saudi Foreign Minister Prince Faisal bin Farhan said that Israel’s blocking of a visit by Arab diplomats to the occupied West Bank showed its “rejection of… a diplomatic path to peace”.
Speaking at a joint press conference in Amman with his Jordanian on Sunday evening, Egyptian and Bahraini counterparts, Prince Faisal said Israel’s move “illustrates and confirms its extremism and its rejection of any serious attempt to engage in a diplomatic path toward peace… it is clear that they only want violence.”
