The dawn raid by Islamist fighters set off a week of Israeli shelling, in which they breached the heavily fortified border and left more than 1,300 people shot, stabbed and burned to death.
Health officials in Gaza said more than 2,200 people had been killed. Like the Israeli side, most of them were civilians.
WHO said health workers in northern Gaza now face a choice between abandoning critically ill patients, risking their lives by staying on site, or risking their lives while trying to transport their patients to southern hospitals. Faced with a “painful choice”. Don’t have the ability to get them.
“Overwhelmingly, caregivers have decided to stay behind and honor their oath as health professionals to ‘do no harm,'” WHO said.
“Health care workers should never have to make such impossible choices.”