Doctors Without Borders (MSF) on Wednesday voiced deep concern about the situation in the Nasser Hospital in Khan Younis, south of the Gaza Strip, as the Israeli army continues its siege and shelling of the health facility.

"We are very worried about the situation unfolding at the Nasser Hospital in Khan Younis," said MSF in a statement on X, according to Tukey’s Anadolu News Agency. 

It called on the Israeli army "to ensure that all medical staff, patients and displaced people are unharmed."

MSF added that the Israeli army ordered all displaced people inside the hospital to evacuate it, while only allowing medical staff and patients to stay "with a limit of one caretaker per patient."

"People are afraid to leave the hospital because they hear reports of people being shot at. Those who wish to leave must be granted safe passage out," MSF concluded.

On Tuesday, the Health Ministry in Gaza said a number of Palestinians were killed by the Israeli army while trying to exit the hospital.

Hamas, for its part, also warned that the Israeli army "intends to commit a crime" against those inside the hospital.