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The WHO condemns Israel's order to close hospitals in northern Gaza
14 October 2023 20:44 BST
The World Health Organization (WHO) "strongly condemns" Israel's repeated order for 22 hospitals to eject over 2,000 in-patients being treated in northern Gaza.
"Evacuation orders by Israel to hospitals in northern Gaza are a death sentence for the sick and injured," the group said.
"The forced evacuation of patients and health workers will further worsen the current humanitarian and public health catastrophe," it continued.
"Forcing more than 2,000 patients to relocate to southern Gaza, where health facilities are already running at maximum capacity and unable to absorb a dramatic rise in the number patients, could be tantamount to a death sentence."