The Palestinian Ministry of Health announced that all Gaza Governorate hospitals are “out of service.”
The Palestinian Red Crescent said that heavy shelling and gunfire took place in the vicinity of Al-Quds Hospital in Tal Al-Hawa in Gaza City during an attempt to evacuate it.
The Ministry of Health in Gaza confirmed that “patients from Al-Shifa Hospital are forced to leave despite their injuries,” and the Undersecretary of the Palestinian Ministry of Health in Gaza said from inside Al-Shifa Complex: “We have repeatedly called for the necessity of securing our patients during evacuation.”
He added: “Patients are forced to leave despite their injuries.”
The Undersecretary of the Ministry of Health in Gaza, Yousef Abu Al-Rish, also reported “the death of six premature infants and 9 in the intensive care unit” due to a power outage to Al-Shifa Hospital, the largest hospital complex in the Gaza Strip, which is subject to a continuous Israeli siege and bombing.
Abu Al-Rish, who was in Al-Shifa Hospital, where thousands of displaced people took refuge, indicated, on Sunday evening, in a previous toll, “the death of five premature babies” and “seven patients.” The hospital announced on Saturday that 39 premature babies were still in the hospital. A doctor with Doctors Without Borders also reported that 17 patients were in intensive care.
The hospital announced on Saturday that 39 premature babies were still in the hospital. A doctor with Doctors Without Borders also reported that 17 patients were in intensive care.
The hospital, which is considered the largest in the Gaza Strip, has been suffering from a fuel shortage for several days, amid violent battles between the Israeli army and Hamas fighters in the vicinity of the hospital.
For his part, the director of the hospital, Muhammad Abu Salamiya, said that the Israeli army contacted him with the aim of supplying the hospital with specific amounts of fuel, but the army quickly “refused and we do not know what the situation is,” he said.
On Saturday, Israel announced that it was ready to help evacuate premature babies from the hospital, but this was not implemented due to the ongoing fighting in the surrounding area.
In addition to Al-Shifa Hospital, the situation is still complicated in other hospitals in Gaza, according to the director of hospitals in the Gaza Strip, Muhammad Zaqout, who said, “The forced eviction of the Nasser and Al-Rantisi children’s hospitals took patients out onto the streets without medical care.”
Al-Quds Hospital in Gaza City became out of service on Sunday due to a lack of fuel and electricity, according to the Palestinian Red Crescent.
2023-11-13 07:15:00
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