Eighty-five patients, including women and children, trapped at besieged Kamal Adwan Hospital

The director of the besieged Kamal Adwan hospital in Beit Lahia has said that 85 injured people, including women and children, remain trapped at the facility and are receiving "minimal health services".

Dr Hussam Abu Safia said in a statement shared on Gaza health ministry's Telegram channel that the hospital had received 17 children with signs of malnutrition, adding that yesterday an elderly man died of severe dehydration.

"Unfortunately there is no movement or even promises from any international party to open a humanitarian corridor through which medical supplies, surgical medical delegations, baby food, baby milk and therapeutic milk can enter, so we can treat cases of malnutrition," Safia said.

He added that the hospital received a distress call from a family targeted by an air strike, but they couldn't respond due to the ongoing siege.