There are 10,000 cancer patients in Gaza without critically needed medicine after their only hospital was forced out of service by the Israeli army in the early days of Israel’s devastating onslaught on Gaza, the head of a hospital in the strip, Anadolu Agency reports.

“After the Turkish-Palestinian Friendship Hospital for Cancer was forced to go out of service, 10,000 cancer patients are facing compelling and inhumane circumstances,” Dr Subhi Skaik, the hospital’s director, said in a statement.

He added that now cancer patients in Gaza have no access to cancer medicine.

Skaik urged countries worldwide to help get the hospital running again, calling it the “only resort for cancer patients in Gaza.”