DUBAI, January 2. /TASS/. About 10,000 cancer patients in Gaza lost access to medicines after the Turkish-Palestinian Friendship Hospital had gone out of service amid Israeli airstrikes, Palestine’s Wafa news agency reports.

According to medical sources, Gaza cancer patients are facing "inhumane conditions with no access to the medicines they need."

The Turkish-Palestinian Friendship Hospital south of Gaza City had to suspend operations after it was hit by an Israeli airstrike in October.

Tensions in the Middle East flared up again on October 7 after militants from the radical Palestinian group Hamas launched a surprise incursion into Israeli territory from the Gaza Strip, killing residents of border communities and taking over 200 people, including women, children and the elderly, hostage. Hamas described its attack as a response to the aggressive actions of Israeli authorities against the Al-Aqsa Mosque in Jerusalem. Israel announced a total blockade of Gaza and started carrying out retaliatory strikes on targets in the Strip, as well as on certain areas in Lebanon and Syria, and also launched a ground operation in the enclave. Clashes are also taking place in the West Bank.