All hospitals in the province of Gaza, in the north of the Gaza Strip, have stopped working, the deputy health minister of the Palestinian enclave, Youssef Abou Rich, told the AFP news agency yesterday. Since Friday, the siege by Israeli troops has increased around hospitals, mainly in the city of Gaza, which is the center of the fighting.
The Israeli army claims that hospitals in the Gaza Strip are being used by Hamas to attack Israel. Hospitals are now deprived of electricity due to the lack of fuel needed to run the generators, the shortage of which is due to the siege imposed by Israel. Six premature babies and nine patients in intensive care died due to a lack of electricity in Al-Shifa hospital, the largest in the Gaza Strip, the deputy minister of Health of the Hamas Government also announced yesterday.
According to the daily report from the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, the latest attacks caused damage to the cardiovascular disease care area and maternity ward, among other hospital facilities in Gaza City, the strip’s capital. The World Health Organization (WHO) warned that it has lost contact with Al-Shifa, while another hospital in Gaza’s capital, AlQuds, is no longer functioning due to lack of fuel.
On October 7, Hamas carried out an attack of unprecedented dimensions on Israeli territory, leaving more than 1,200 dead, mostly civilians, and more than 200 hostages, which it holds captive in the Gaza Strip. Israel then began strong retaliation against that poor Palestinian enclave, controlled by Hamas since 2007, with cuts in the supply of food, water, electricity and fuel and daily bombings, followed by a ground offensive that completed the siege of the city on Thursday. city of Gaza. This conflict caused at least 11,000 deaths in the Gaza Strip and 1,400 in Israel
