Jauhn Etienne Villaruel

Medics evacuate injured people and cancer patients from the Kamal Adwan Hospital in Beit Lahia in the northern Gaza Strip on October 28, 2024, to al-Shifa hospital in Gaza City in a joint World Health Organization and Palestinian Red Crescent initiative. Photo by AFP

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Agence France-Presse

<div><span class="fr-img-caption fr-fic fr-dib" style="width:950px"><span class="fr-img-wrap"><img src="https://od2-image-api.abs-cbn.com/prod/editorImage/17473662058171730174021246Screen Shot 2024-10-29 at 11.53.10 AM.webp" style="width:950px" class="fr-fic fr-dib"/><span class="fr-inner" style="text-align:left">Medics evacuate injured people and cancer patients from the Kamal Adwan Hospital in Beit Lahia in the northern Gaza Strip on October 28, 2024, to al-Shifa hospital in Gaza City in a joint World Health Organization and Palestinian Red Crescent initiative. <em>Photo by AFP</em></span></span></span></div><p style="text-align:left">GENEVA, Switzerland — The World Health Organization said Thursday that the last hospital in Gaza providing cancer and cardiac care had stopped functioning after an Israeli attack.</p><div><a href="https://www.abs-cbn.com/news/world/2025/4/13/israeli-missiles-strike-gaza-hospital-patients-evacuated-1756">Israeli missiles strike Gaza hospital, patients evacuated</a></div><p>The UN health agency chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said on X that an attack on Tuesday left the European Hospital in Khan Yunis &quot;severely damaged and inaccessible&quot;.</p><p>It is &quot;no longer functional&quot;, he said, adding that a WHO team had evacuated emergency medical staff who had worked through the attacks.</p><p>&quot;A strike hit nearby just before the mission,&quot; Tedros said, adding that the staff had been taken to the Nasser Medical Complex.</p><p>The WHO chief said &quot;the hospital&#x27;s closure has cut off vital services including neurosurgery, cardiac care, and cancer treatment -- all unavailable elsewhere in Gaza.&quot;</p><div><a href="https://www.abs-cbn.com/news/world/2024/12/28/gaza-hospital-shut-after-israeli-raid-director-held-health-officials-0248">Gaza hospital shut after Israeli raid, director held: health officials</a></div><p>&quot;The shutdown also ends the facility&#x27;s role as a key hub for medical evacuations, further straining the overwhelmed health system,&quot; Tedros said.</p><p>The Doctors Without Borders (MSF) charity also highlighted the impact of the closure.</p><p>&quot;This was one of the last remaining lifelines in Gaza&#x27;s shattered healthcare system,&quot; it said on X, saying that the Nasser hospital was now the only one functioning in Khan Yunis in southern Gaza.</p><p>Nasser, it added, &quot;was also hit on the same day a few hours before the Gaza European Hospital for the second time in less than two months.&quot;</p><p>MSF said that the territory&#x27;s remaining hospitals &quot;mostly partially functional, are constantly overwhelmed.&quot;</p><div><a href="https://www.abs-cbn.com/news/world/2025/1/26/drone-footage-destruction-of-major-hospitals-in-gaza-1814">DRONE FOOTAGE: Destruction of major hospitals in Gaza</a></div><p>&quot;Repeated strikes on healthcare facilities are yet more examples of the Israeli authorities making the Strip unlivable.&quot;</p><p>Tedros insisted that &quot;hospitals must be protected&quot;.</p><p>&quot;They must never be militarized or targeted. Ceasefire,&quot; he declared.</p><div><strong>© Agence France-Presse </strong></div><div><strong>RELATED VIDEO</strong></div><div><strong><span class="fr-video fr-deletable fr-fvc fr-dvb fr-draggable" contenteditable="false" draggable="true"><iframe width="640" height="360" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/eG2sJ-n-648?&amp;wmode=opaque&amp;rel=0" frameBorder="0" allowfullscreen="" class="fr-draggable"></iframe></span></strong><br/></div>

<p>The WHO said the last hospital in Gaza providing cancer and cardiac care had stopped functioning after an Israeli attack.</p>

The WHO said the last hospital in Gaza providing cancer and cardiac care had stopped functioning after an Israeli attack.

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WHO says Gaza's last cancer hospital stops working

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Published May 16, 2025 12:14 PM PHT

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