United Nations officials today expressed anger and disbelief at the situation in Gaza hospitals, where the wounded lack even basic supplies and children recovering from amputations are killed in the ongoing conflict.

Most of the hospitals in Gaza are no longer in operation due to the damage they have suffered in the attacks, the Israeli raids and the lack of fuel and personnel. Those that remain open are under increasing pressure from attacks and the increasing numbers of sick and wounded arriving at them.

“I am outraged that children who recover from mutilations in hospitals are then killed in those hospitals,” said James Elder, a spokesman for the United Nations children’s agency.

He added that the Nasser Hospitalthe largest operating hospital left in the enclave, it has been bombed twice in the last 48 hours. He said one of the victims was 13-year-old Dina, an amputee who had survived an attack on her home that killed her family.

“So where do the children and families go? They are not safe in hospitals, they are not safe in shelters, and they are certainly not safe in so-called ‘safe’ zones,” he said.

Margaret Harris, spokeswoman for the World Health Organization, described the situation in Gaza hospitals as “unthinkable”.

“They don’t have the absolute basics. One of my colleagues talked about people lying on the floor in excruciating pain, butchering but not asking for painkillers. They ask for water“, he stated. “It is inconceivable that the world allows this to continue.”

Camal Antoine Hospital is out of operation

A hospital in northern Gaza, which Israeli troops raided because it was being used by Hamas fighters, is no longer operational and the patients, among them infants, have been removed thus putting the enclave’s already crumbling health services at greater risk, as a World Health Organization official said today.

Gaza authorities announced that Israeli forces used last week bulldozer to tear down the perimeter of Camal Antoine hospital forcing displaced people to leave it.

Reuters was unable to independently verify this information. The WHO announced that it is urgently seeking information about the hospital.

“What we understand is that it is no longer functional,” WHO Gaza representative Richard Pipercorn told the agency.

He explained that two newborns were taken home, “to their families with instructions for their care”, while other patients including infants were taken to Al Ahli and Al Shifa hospitals.

“Many hospital workers are reportedly being detained. We have no room to lose any hospital,” he pointed out.