Health officials alarmed over lack of fuel, water and medical supplies at hospitals in the besieged enclave, while pregnant women await basic necessities.
A Palestinian woman reacts next to a girl wounded in an Israeli strike, at the Shifa hospital in Gaza. Photo: Reuters
Hospitals in besieged Gaza are expected to run out of generator fuel in the next few hours, endangering the lives of thousands of patients, according to the UN. A week of blistering airstrikes have demolished entire neighbourhoods but failed to stem rocket fire into Israel. In Nasser Hospital, in the southern town of Khan Younis, intensive care rooms were packed with wounded patients, most of them children under the age of 3. Hundreds of people with severe blast injuries have come to the hospital, where fuel is expected to run out by Monday, said Dr Mohammed Qandeel, a consultant at the critical care complex.If fuel runs out, “it means the whole health system will be shut down,” he said, as children moaned in pain in the background.
Shifa Hospital in Gaza City, the territory's largest, said it would bury 100 bodies in a mass grave as an emergency measure after its morgue overflowed. Tens of thousands of people seeking safety have gathered in the hospital compound.The United Nations Population Fund said Sunday that 50,000 pregnant women in Gaza cannot obtain basic health services.
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