Israeli incursion could halt Rafah's last functioning hospital, WHO says

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GENEVA: A World Health Organization official said on Tuesday (May 28) the last hospital in Rafah could stop functioning and a substantial number of deaths could be expected if Is

A Palestinian child, wounded in an Israeli strike on an area designated for displaced people, is assisted at a hospital as the war in Gaza continues, in Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip, May 26, 2024, in this screen grab from a video obtained by Reuters.

Israel said it had targeted two senior Hamas operatives in a compound and had not intended to cause civilian casualties. Mourners react next to the bodies of Palestinians killed in an Israeli strike on an area designated for displaced people, during their funeral in Rafah, in the southern Gaza Strip, on May 27, 2024.

"Almost 100 per cent of the medical supplies, essential medicines, equipment, they actually come from Al-Arish through the Rafah crossing," he said."There are currently 60 trucks that are in Al-Arish waiting to get into Gaza."

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