World Health Organization Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus stressed that patients and health workers must be protected and the blockade on aid to the Gaza Strip must be lifted.

Ghebreyesus added in a press statement on Sunday evening that the Al-Ahli Baptist Hospital in the Gaza Strip had ceased operations following the Israeli attack on it at dawn today.

"The director of Al-Ahli Hospital in Gaza informed us of the death of a child due to the interruption of care," he said, stressing that hospitals are protected under international law and that attacks on healthcare facilities must stop.

This morning, Israeli occupation aircraft bombed the reception building at the Arab Baptist Hospital in Gaza City with two missiles, destroying it, causing extensive damage, and setting fire to the reception and emergency departments, laboratory, and pharmacy.