Doctors Without Borders says surgeon injured in Gaza hospital by gunfire coming from outside

The humanitarian aid organization Doctors Without Borders (MSF) said Tuesday that one of its doctors was injured inside of a Gaza hospital after being hit "by a shot fired from outside the facility."

The group wrote on X that its colleagues at the Al-Awda hospital in the northern Gaza Strip "report snipers surrounding the hospital, firing on those inside. 

"Al-Awda has been under total siege by Israeli forces since 5 December," Doctors Without Borders is claiming, adding that "these attacks have killed at least 5 hospital staff, including two MSF doctors while they were caring for their patients."

"The hospital building has also sustained substantial damage in the bombing and fighting, along many other hospitals in the north of the Strip, and supplies are running low, further compromising the doctors' capacity to treat patients," it also said.

There was no immediate comment from the Israeli military. Israel and the U.S. say Hamas has been operating out of civilian infrastructure, putting lives at risk.