Gaza: “No end to horrors” as patients are burned to death in hospital attack, UN reports

At least four Palestinians were burned to death after Israeli forces hit al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital, where people from northern Gaza had been told to relocate and were sheltering in tents, the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) has reported.1

Just hours before the attack, which took place in the early hours of 14 October, another airstrike hit a school in Nuseirat, killing more than 20 people who had been sheltering there and injuring many more.

In a statement Joyce Msuya, OCHA’s acting undersecretary general for humanitarian affairs and emergency relief coordinator, said, “There seems to be no end to the horrors that …