The Emirati Crescent Hospital in Rafah has been forced to “suspend” its services as ongoing Israeli ground operations have severed access to the hospital, said the head of the health emergency committee in Rafah.
Dr. Marwan Al-Hams said that the vicinity surrounding the hospital had “become a red zone.”
“Citizens cannot enter or exit it, nor can medical staff, patients, and pregnant women who want to give birth. They do not have access to this hospital. This hospital became suspended, neither in service nor out of service,” Mr Al-Hams told CNN.
He added that the hospital’s nursery, operation blocks and maternity department had been destroyed by Israeli forces.
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