Doctors Without Borders calls on Israel to stop attacking north Gaza hospitals
Doctors Without Borders is calling on Israeli forces to "immediately stop their attacks on hospitals in north Gaza," alleging that six of its staff are trapped in a Jabalia hospital without power and one was killed from shrapnel injuries that could not be adequately treated.
In a statement Saturday, the agency -- also known as MSF or Médecins Sans Frontières -- referred to the Hamas-run Ministry of Health in Gaza and other medics on the ground as reporting that Israeli forces are besieging the three main hospitals in northern Gaza. MSF said 350 patients are trapped inside the hospitals, including patients who are pregnant and just underwent surgery.
"The ever-worsening escalation of violence and nonstop Israeli military operations that we have been witnessing over the past two weeks in northern Gaza have horrifying consequences,” MSF's emergency coordinator in Gaza said, adding, "This is purely and simply a collective punishment imposed on Palestinians in Gaza, who must choose between being forcibly displaced from the north or killed. We fear that this will not stop."
There was no immediate comment from the Israel Defense Forces.
-ABC News' Victoria Beaule