DUBAI, January 8. /TASS/. The World Health Organization (WHO) has no information about whereabouts of hundreds of patients and medical workers of the Al-Aqsa Hospital in Gaza, WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said on the X social network.

Intensified combat operations "near the vital Al-Aqsa Hospital in the Middle Area of Gaza" forced "over 600 patients and most health workers to leave," Ghebreyesus said. "Their locations are not currently known," he noted.

"Tonight’s reports indicate that only 5 doctors remain. Hospital management said health workers had no food," the WHO Director-General stressed.

"The health facility reported immense needs, especially health workers, medical supplies and beds," Ghebreyesus noted. The hospital staff said "their greatest need was for their hospital, and its staff, patients and families there, to be protected from strikes and hostilities," the official stressed.

"Three months into this conflict, it is inconceivable that this most essential need — the protection of health care — is not assured," he added.