The last MSF health facility in north Gaza has been forced to temporarily close after Israeli forces issued an evacuation order for areas of Gaza City on 8 July. Our teams continued to provide care to patients until the last minute, before fleeing the area that came under heavy fire. “We don’t know what to eat or drink. Where to go, where shall we sleep? We sleep in the streets,” says MSF mechanic Suhail Habib who worked at the clinic. Suhail, like many of our team, has been displaced multiple times before. “No one cares about us. I am upset because wounded people will come to the clinic, and they will find it closed.” With the repeated evacuation orders and destruction of health facilities, people in northern Gaza have almost no options left for essential healthcare. Most health facilities in North Gaza are no longer functioning and are facing critical shortages of supplies. MSF is willing to resume activities in Gaza City clinic, but to do so
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health facilities, their surroundings, and staff must be protected.