REUTERS/Ibraheem Abu Mustafa Acquire Licensing RightsKHAN YOUNIS, Gaza, Dec 1 (Reuters) - At Nasser Hospital in southern Gaza, a man cradling a boy with a bloodied scalp cried for help.
Barely two hours after the lapse of a week-old truce between Israel and the Palestinian group Hamas, Gaza's Hamas-controlled health ministry reported that 32 people had already been killed in Israeli air strikes.
Reuters footage from Nasser Hospital, the second largest in the Gaza strip, showed a steady stream of wounded children and adults being brought in as other people wept outside beside bodies of loved ones killed in strikes.
"Gaza's health system has been crippled by the ongoing hostilities," Dr Richard Peeperkorn, the World Health Organisation's representative in Gaza, said.
"It cannot afford to lose any more hospitals or hospital beds," he told reporters by video link.
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