Key points
- Access to Al-Amal hospital is obstructed, and is leading to more preventable deaths: WHO
- Al-Nasser and Al-Amal hospitals also unable to fully treat injured
- Israel has arrested Madleen’s 12 crew members, including Swedish activist Greta Thunberg
ISLAMABAD: The Al-Amal Hospital in Gaza, one of the few still operating in the Palestinian territory, is now “virtually out of service” due to intense military activity, the head of the World Health Organisation (WHO) said Monday.
“Access to the hospital is obstructed, preventing new patients from reaching care, and leading to more preventable deaths,” the World Health Organization’s director-general Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus posted on X.
Al-Amal Hospital in Khan Younis, #Gaza, is now essentially out of service due to increasing hostilities in its vicinity.
Access to the hospital is obstructed, preventing new patients from reaching care, and leading to more preventable deaths. The hospital still has patients who… pic.twitter.com/21VwZq4wtK
— Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus (@DrTedros) June 9, 2025
Tedros said two emergency medical teams – one local, the other international – “are still doing their best to serve the remaining patients with the limited medical supplies left on the premises.”
“With the closure of Al-Amal, Nasser Medical Complex is now the only remaining hospital with an intensive care unit in Khan Younis,” he said.
Serious shortages of medicines
The WHO said June 5 that al-Nasser and Al-Amal hospitals were unable to fully treat the injured that continue to pour in because of serious shortages of medicines and medical supplies after two months of total blockade, AFP reported.
Israel war on Gaza, has created one of the most serious humanitarian crises in the world, with Palestinian civilians exhausted by bombardments, forced displacement and hunger.
Meanwhile, Israeli forces have killed at least 60 Palestinians in Gaza on Monday, including at least 14 people near an aid centre in southern Rafah, according to Al-Jazeera.
Swedish activist Greta Thunberg
Israel has also detained the Madleen’s 12 crew members, including Swedish activist Greta Thunberg and Al Jazeera journalist Omar Fayyad, after towing the aid ship to Israel’s Ashdod Port, Al Jazeera cited their lawyer as saying.
The flotilla was aiming to break Israel’s illegal blockade on Gaza and was seized by Israeli forces in international waters about 100 nautical miles from Gaza’s shores.
Al Jazeera reported that the FFC, which organised the Madleen’s journey to Gaza, is drawing attention to the plight of the more than 10,400 Palestinians imprisoned in Israeli jails.
“Our abducted Madleen colleagues will briefly encounter a system where over 10,400 missing Palestinian prisoners are being held hostage illegally imprisoned by the Israeli occupation,” the group said.
“[The Israeli occupation has] no jurisdiction, no legal grounding, and no right to hold them hostage,” Al Jazeera cited the group as saying.
“Regime of abduction and apartheid”
The FFC said the Israeli system is a “regime of abduction and apartheid”, where “Palestinians are held hostage under a structure designed to crush resistance, silence truth and normalize ethnic cleansing,” Al Jazeera reported.
Israel’s war on Gaza has killed at least 54,927 Palestinians and wounded 126,615, according to Gaza’s Health Ministry.
An estimated 1,139 people were killed in Israel during the Hamas-led attacks of October 7, 2023, and more than 200 were taken captive.
