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21 patients die since Gaza hospital comes under new siege, WHO says

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People transfer the body of a victim at Al-Shifa Hospital in Gaza City, on Feb 29, 2024. [Xinhua]

Twenty-one patients have died since Israeli Defense Forces raided Al-Shifa, the largest hospital in Gaza, for a second time on March 18, head of the World Health Organization (WHO) said on Sunday.

"Hostilities continue around the hospital," WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus wrote on X, formerly Twitter, citing a health worker inside Al-Shifa.

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