MSF closes a primary care center in Al Mawasi, southern Gaza, due to Israeli bombings

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May 30. (EUROPA PRESS) –

The NGO Doctors Without Borders (MSF) announced this Thursday that it has been forced to close a primary care center in the Gazan city of Al Mawasi, in the south of the Gaza Strip, due to the constant bombing by the Israeli Army on area.

“It is the second structure that we have to close this week and one more step in Israel’s systematic dismantling of the Gaza health system. Since February, we had treated more than 33,000 patients in this health center,” the NGO said. in a statement published on the social network X.

MSF recalled that earlier this week both medical staff and patients at its trauma stabilization point in Tal al-Sultan were forced to flee on Sunday due to Israeli shelling of tents in the displaced persons camp there, which It left more than 45 dead.

“There are no hospitals left in Rafah and medical care points are increasingly scarce. Access for humanitarian organizations to northern Gaza remains blocked. Since October, we have been forced to abandon 14 medical structures in Gaza,” he added.

The authorities of the Gaza Strip, controlled by the Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas), have this Thursday raised the number of Palestinians killed to more than 36,200 due to the offensive unleashed by the Israeli Army after the attacks carried out on October 7 by the Islamist group and other Palestinian factions, with the epicenter of operations in recent weeks in and around Rafah, on the border with Egypt.