AGI – The hospitals of Gaza Strip they have become hell: it is precisely around the main health facilities of the enclave that they are taking place the fiercest battles between the Israeli military and the fighters of Hamashe continues Electricity outages have already resulted in patient deaths including some premature newborns deprived of nutrition in incubators. The war that began on October 7 with the massacre perpetrated by Hamas militants in Israel has now reached its 37th day.
After the Israeli army said yesterday that there was no siege on theal-Chifa hospital, in the north of the Strip, accusing Hamas of being responsible for what is happening, and that patients and health workers were given the opportunity to leave the facility and evacuate to the south, during the night the alarms arrived from the World Health Organization and the Doctors organization without borders. According to the latter, without an immediate ceasefire, Gaza’s hospitals will transform into so many “mortuaries”.
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The general secretary WHO, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, he announced that he had lost contact with his interlocutors in the al-Chifa hospital in the city of Gaza, the largest, subject to repeated attacks. “WHO is very concerned about the safety of health workers, the hundreds of sick and injured patients and newborns requiring respiratory assistance, and the displaced people inside the hospital,” Tedros wrote on .
Deeply worrisome and frightening: @WHO has lost contact with its focal points in Al-Shifa Hospital in #Gazaamid horrifying reports of the hospital facing repeated attacks.
There are reports that some of those who fled the hospital have been shot at, wounded, or killed.
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— Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus (@DrTedros) November 12, 2023
Yesterday the spokesman for the Israeli Armed Forces assured that he will help today the evacuation of newborns. Overnight, the director of the Gaza City hospital said that the facility was “completely surrounded” by Israeli forces and that shelling continued in the surrounding area. “The medical team cannot work and we cannot manage dozens of corpses, we cannot bury them.”
“If we do not act now, if we do not immediately stop this bloodbath with a ceasefire or at least a medical evacuation of patients, these hospitals will become real morgues,” according to MSF. The UN estimates that 20 of the 36 hospitals in the Gaza Strip are no longer operational because of the war.
Last night Israeli military planes hit terrorist facilities in Syria, following bombing from those areas on territories controlled in the Golan.
Hamas: Gaza hospital no longer operational. 2 newborns died
The largest hospital in Gaza, around which fighting is increasingly intense, has ceased its activity and is no longer able to provide medical care. She said it the spokesperson of the Gaza Ministry of Health, run by Hamas, cited by the Israeli newspaper Haaretz. According to the statement, 5 patients, including 2 premature newborns, died due to continuous power cuts to power the machinery of al-Chifa hospital. In addition to the healthcare staff, patients and hundreds of displaced people in the facility there are over 100 patient corpses deceased in recent days who cannot be managed or buried, the ministry reported.
An evacuation corridor in the north of Gaza was also opened today
Even today, for the second day, a humanitarian corridor to allow the evacuation of citizens from the North of the Gaza Strip, it was opened at 9am local time and will remain open until 4pm. As reported on profile Israel Defence Forces, IDPs can use the Salah Al-Din route south to the coast.
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There will also be what the IDF calls a “tactical pause in military operations for humanitarian purposes” in the area of the Jabalia refugee camp and Ezbet Mallin between 10am and 2pm, again to allow evacuation to the south and supplies. Furthermore, the IDF explains, “a safe passage will be opened from the al-Shifa hospital through the Al-Wahda street to the Salah Al-Din route south of Wadi Gaza”. The message from the Israeli Armed Forces ends with a phone number and Telegram contact to be used in case Hamas prevents residents from evacuating.
UNDP headquarters in Gaza bombed, many killed and injured
A “high number of deaths and injuries” were caused by bombs falling last night on the Gaza headquarters ofUN agency UNDP, the Program of United Nations for development which has a specific “program of assistance to the Palestinian people”. The same agency denounces this in a statement: “the ongoing tragedy of civilian deaths and injuries caught in the trap of this conflict must stop – it is said – Civilians, civil infrastructures and the inviolability of UN headquarters must be respected and protected in every circumstance.” Furthermore, they were widespread images showing a crater in the center of a school managed by the UN agency for Palestinian refugees (UNRWA) in Beit Lahia, in the north of the Gaza Strip. Thousands of displaced people who sought refuge from the bombs dropped on the area over the past 5 weeks have taken refuge in the school.
The cardiac department of the Gaza City hospital destroyed
The cardiology department ofal-Chifa hospital in Gaza city it was destroyed by an Israeli bombing. This was announced by the Gaza health ministry, run by Hamas.
Al-Quds hospital is also not operational
Even the hospital Al-Quds in Gaza Citylike the main one in Al-Shifa, has stopped working due to lack of fuel. This was announced by the Palestinian Red Crescent, quoted by the Israeli newspaper Haaretz. Al-Quds medical teams have resorted to traditional treatment methods given the lack of medical equipment, food and water.
Commenting on the closure of the two hospitals, the head of health facilities in the Gaza Strip, Muhammad Zakot, claimed “not even a drop of fuel entered the hospitals”, adding that access to the Chifa hospital is not safe and it is therefore not possible to manage the corpses found there. The 1,500 displaced people living in the hospital area are in danger, he added, stating that the accumulation of rubbish and medical waste threatens the lives of all Gaza residents. “We ask Egypt to make ambulances available to bring the sick and displaced to safety,” he concluded.
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2023-11-12 11:38:00
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