Hospital patients in Nasser Hospital facing 'catastrophic conditions'

Nasser Hospital, the main medical facility in Khan Younis in the southern Gaza Strip, has completely run out of food, anaesthetics and painkillers as a "result of the Israeli siege imposed on it for the fifth day," said spokesman for the Palestinian health ministry in Gaza.

"There are 150 health personnel, 350 patients, and hundreds of displaced families in the Nasser Medical Complex in catastrophic conditions of starvation, targeting, and lack of treatment," said Dr Ashraf al-Qudra. 

Nasser Hospital is functioning with only 10 percent of its personnel and the conditions are "inhumane", said the Palestinian health ministry on Thursday.