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The UN humanitarian agency OCHA announced on Friday that the two hospitals still operating in northern Gaza, Al-Awda and Kamal Adwan, had no accessible hospitals after they came under Israeli siege.

Kamal Adwan Hospital Director Dr. Hussam Abu Safia told CNN that Israeli forces had partially withdrawn from the area since Saturday morning, although the shooting continued. Safia said she could not reach the facility, but some medical staff were treating patients at the hospital, while other hospital staff were evacuated “a few days ago”.

In a new report released on Friday, WHO said OCHA health workers and patients have been evacuated from Kamal Adwan Hospital, most of whom are now at Al Helou Hospital in Gaza City.

He added that Al Awda Hospital in northern Gaza was “partially functional” after the Israeli army forced the evacuation of most hospital staff, patients and their companions, according to the WHO, “but remains inaccessible”. 12 staff, 14 patients and eight companions, including the director, were at the scene, WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said in a post on X.

CNN has contacted the Israel Defense Forces.

As of Friday, 15 of Gaza’s 36 hospitals were only partially functional, 21 were out of service and six were operational field hospitals, the OCHA report said, citing the WHO. According to Gaza’s Ministry of Health, existing hospitals are operating at four times their capacity.

“Lacks of fuel, medical supplies and equipment threaten the ability of the remaining health facilities to function,” he added, adding that the situation at Al Aqsa Martyrs’ Hospital was particularly dire. The agency said it was able to deliver 15,000 liters of fuel to the hospital on Friday, but appealed for urgent fuel to avoid an “immediate crisis” that could endanger the lives of more than 1,200 injured patients, newborns and about 600 patients with kidney failure who need dialysis treatment if the power goes out.

Some of the displaced in central Gaza are now surviving on barely 3% of their daily water needs, and infectious diseases such as suspected diarrhea and hepatitis A continue to rise, with children under five years old, the UN aid agency warned. Age is very affected.

Earlier this week, the head of the WHO called on Israel to ease all restrictions on aid entering Gaza, saying the main entry route for life-saving medical aid from Egypt into Gaza had been cut off amid Israeli military action. Southern city of Rafah.