Health officials in Gaza said on Thursday that the European hospital in Khan Younis is now entirely out of service after heavy Israeli bombardment earlier in the week.

"The hospital includes 28 intensive care beds, 12 nurseries, 260 overnight beds, 25 emergency beds, and 60 oncology beds that are now out of service," the health ministry said in a statement.

"The European Gaza Hospital is the only hospital providing medical follow-up care for cancer patients in the Gaza Strip, following the destruction of the Turkish Friendship Hospital," it added.

Other specialised services such as neurosurgery, thoracic surgery, the cardiac catheterisation centre, cardiovascular surgery, and ophthalmology have now all stopped, as they were only available at the European Hospital, officials noted.