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18 Oct 2023

Aid organisation calls for humanitarian corridor in Gaza

From Checkpoint, 6:12 pm on 18 October 2023

A doctor has described an operating room ceiling collapsing to the floor mid surgery during the bombing of a Gaza hospital.

Palestinian officials claim Israel is responsible for the missile strike that hit the Al-Ahli al-Arabi hospital killing up to 500 people.

The Israeli Defence Force categorically denies that. It says a failed Islamic Jihad rocket launch caused the hospital blast.

Regardless of who is responsible Medecin Sans Frontierre says it's a massacre and absolutely unacceptable.

And its calling for an aid corridor to opened and designated protected spaces for civilians.

Simon Eccleshall, is MSF Australia's Head of Programs and speaks to Lisa Owen.