内容摘要：Nearly a kilometer (about half a mile) away, Israeli drones fired Monday into the al-Awda hospital courtyard, preventing movement, Shurafi said. On Wednesday, the hospital was shelled while its director was on the phone with AP. A large boom could be heard on the call.

Nearly a kilometer (about half a mile) away, Israeli drones fired Monday into the al-Awda hospital courtyard, preventing movement, Shurafi said. On Wednesday, the hospital was shelled while its director was on the phone with AP. A large boom could be heard on the call.

Hamza Abu Shabab, 7, sits in bed with third-degree burns caused when, frightened by an Israeli airstrike, he spilled a hot plate of rice and lentils on himself in the family’s tent in southern Gaza last month, at Nasser hospital in Khan Younis, Gaza Strip, Sunday, May 4, 2025.(AP Photo/Abdel Kareem Hana)Hamza Abu Shabab, 7, sits in bed with third-degree burns caused when, frightened by an Israeli airstrike, he spilled a hot plate of rice and lentils on himself in the family’s tent in southern Gaza last month, at Nasser hospital in Khan Younis, Gaza Strip, Sunday, May 4, 2025.(AP Photo/Abdel Kareem Hana)

Since Israel resumedin mid-March, the number of patients with strike-related burns coming into Nasser Hospital has increased fivefold, from five a day to 20, according to Doctors Without Borders, which supports the facility. The burns are also bigger, covering up to 40% of people’s bodies, Faucon said.Some patients have died because burns impacted their airways and breathing or because they developed severe infections, she said.

While strikes are a main cause of burns, people also seek treatment for accidents, such as spilling hot liquids. That is in part due to the squalid living conditions, with hundreds of thousands of displaced Palestinians squeezed into tents and crowded shelters, often cooking over wood fires.Hamza was one of more than 70 patients in Nasser Hospital’s burns and orthopedic ward — as many as it could hold — with more streaming in for daily care.

His mother said Hamza has undergone nine surgeries, including four on his face. The hospital ran out of the liquid painkillers used for children, and he struggles to swallow the larger pills, she said.

Raika Abu Sahloul, 40, cares for her 4-year-old niece, Layan, as she sits despondently among her dolls at Nasser hospital with second-degree burns on her face, foot, and stomach, caused a week earlier during an Israeli army strike on her home in Khan Younis that killed her pregnant mother and two siblings and buried her under the rubble, in Khan Younis, Gaza Strip, Sunday, May 4, 2025.(AP Photo/Abdel Kareem Hana)She said the nonbinary singer was “very courageous.”

“If Russia couldn’t participate, why should Israel?” she said.The European Broadcasting Union, which runs Eurovision, pointed out that Israel is represented by broadcaster KAN, not the government. It has called on participants to respect Eurovision’s values of “universality, diversity, equality and inclusivity” and its political neutrality.

Associated Press journalists Hilary Fox and Kwiyeon Ha in Basel and Geir Moulson in Berlin contributed to this report.WASHINGTON (AP) — Secretary of State