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WHO loses contact with Gaza’s largest hospital
- The director general of hospitals in Gaza warns the lives of hundreds of patients are at risk because of the catastrophic situation at al-Shifa Hospital.
- Palestinian Minister of Health Mai al-Kaila says Israeli forces “are not evacuating people from hospitals; instead they are forcibly evicting the wounded onto the streets, leaving them to face inevitable death”.
Child killed every 10 minutes in Gaza – WHO
- Gaza City’s al-Shifa Hospital has been caught in Israel’s ground offensive and health officials say its cardiac ward has been destroyed.
- More than 11,100 Palestinians have been killed in Israeli attacks on Gaza since October 7. In Israel, after a downward revision, the death toll now stands at more than 1,200.
- At least 192 medical staff have been killed according to the Ministry of Health in Gaza. Of them, at least 16 medical staff were killed on duty, according to the World Health Organization.
More than half of Gaza’s hospitals and nearly two-thirds of primary healthcare centres are now out of service and 53 ambulances damaged.
‘Gaza’s biggest hospital now completely out of service: Ministry’Gaza’s biggest hospital now ‘completely out of service’: Ministry
3h ago (14:05 GMT) The spokesman for the Ministry of Health in Gaza, Ashraf al-Qudra, has told Al Jazeera that al-Shifa Hospital is completely out of service, and cannot provide any treatment even to the patients inside the facility, due to constant Israeli attacks.
Israeli bombing has been targeting the vicinity’s external surroundings as well as anyone walking inside the courtyard and between its various buildings, and those wanting to reach the gate of the complex.
“We have deaths in the nursery after the life support machines stopped working inside the section that includes 37 other children who may be on the verge of death,” al-Qudra said.
He added that there were five deaths among the wounded as the medical teams were unable to perform surgical operations on them due to the power outage and lack of fuel.
‘Cease assault and besiegement’ of hospital to save babies: Health charity
A UK-based humanitarian organisation says it is concerned more babies in the neonatal intensive care unit at al-Shifa Hospital will die soon.
“We are deeply concerned by uncritical media reporting regarding the Israeli military’s statement that it will help move premature babies trapped at the hospital to a ‘safer hospital’,” Medical Aid for Palestinians (MAP) said.
“The only safe option to save these babies would be for Israel to cease its assault and besiegement of al-Shifa, to allow fuel to reach the hospital, and to ensure the surviving parents of these babies can be reunited with them.”
Al-Ahli only functioning hospital in north Gaza
Dr Fadel Naim is a surgeon at al-Ahli Arab Hospital, the last functioning hospital in Gaza City and the northern areas. He says the hospital is overwhelmed with casualties.
3h ago
ICU at al-Shifa badly damaged for a second time: Ministry
The intensive care unit (ICU) in al-Shifa Hospital has been badly damaged by Israeli army bombing for a second time, the Gaza Health Ministry has said.
(14:15 GMT)
‘Absolutely impossible to evacuate’ wounded patients: Ministry
Responding to the Israeli forces’ demand to evacuate al-Shifa Hospital, Gaza health ministry spokesperson Ashraf al-Qudra tells Al Jazeera “It is absolutely impossible to evacuate those wounded.”
“If the occupation wants to evacuate the complex, it can only take the patients out to hospitals in the Arab Republic of Egypt because it is absolutely impossible to evacuate those wounded,” he said.
Al-Qudra said a number of children died when they were forced by Israeli forces to evacuate onto the streets because there were no life support devices.
“Therefore, we do not want to repeat this crime against the 650 patients inside the Shifa Medical Complex. The complex cannot be evacuated of patients to hospitals in the southern Gaza Strip, which are also crowded with the wounded and will also stop working in less than two days because of the lack of fuel in their generators.”
US ‘does not want to see firefights in Gaza hospitals’: Report
The US does not want to see firefights in hospitals in the Gaza Strip where civilians get caught in the crossfire, White House National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan has said with astounding cynical hypocrisy.
The US still refuses even to call for a ceasefire and continues to lavish armaments and cash on the Israeli child butchers. In fact President Biden could stop the bombing with just one phone call to Netanyahu.
650 patients in danger at al-Shifa Hospital: Director general
The director general of hospitals in Gaza has warned that the lives of hundreds of patients are at risk due to the catastrophic situation at al-Shifa Hospital.
About 650 patients, including 36 children, have their lives in danger, Muhammad Zaqout said at a press conference, calling on Egypt to save their lives.
Zaqout also confirmed the presence of “about 1,500 displaced people in the al-Shifa Medical Complex,” warning that “accumulation of garbage and medical waste, lack of water, and power outages threaten everyone’s life”.
Patients forcibly evicted by Israeli tanks from hospitals now facing ‘inevitable death’: Minister
Palestinian Minister of Health Mai al-Kaila says Israeli forces “are not evacuating people from hospitals; instead, they are forcibly evicting the wounded and patients onto the streets, leaving them to face inevitable death”.
“This is not evacuation but expulsion under the threat of arms,” she said in a press release, as cited by Palestinian news agency Wafa.
“There is a catastrophe unfolding in hospitals, with patients now dying without receiving their treatments, such as children and adults with kidney failure who are perishing at home without undergoing dialysis sessions.”
She said all 3,000 cancer patients who were receiving treatment at al-Rantisi and Turkish hospitals had been abandoned to face imminent death after Israeli forces forcibly evicted them.
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