The situation in the Gaza hospitals is not good
Gaza’s medical system is on its knees: Israeli bombardment of a Gaza hospital, WHO director-general and UN humanitarian chief-general says the situation facing hospitals is tragic
In order to pursue Hamas in Gaza, the military launched a campaign on Saturday to force the evacuate of hospitals there.
Israel acknowledged an airstrike just a week ago that killed more than a dozen people. Israel said it targeted Hamas members trying to leave the hospital in an ambulance.
The medical system in Gaza has become overtaxed due to the increased pressure on hospitals from the Israeli military.
Israel’s military surrounded and ordered everyone to leave the hospital grounds, including staff, patients and civilians. The military said Hamas fighters were also present and tried to prevent civilians from leaving. The military said that a lot of the civilians left by foot or by ambulance. Israel’s military said it killed the “terrorist” who held approximately 1,000 civilians “hostage” at Rantisi.
With the forced evacuations and ongoing military bombardments from Israel, Gaza’s medical system is “on its knees,” said World Health Organization Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus.
The WHO’s director-general said on Friday that the organization had documented five attacks on five hospitals in a single day in Gaza in the previous week. Half of Gaza’s 36 hospitals and two-thirds of the territory’s primary health care centers are no longer functioning, he added.
The Israeli military does not admit to hitting a hospital, but health officials in Gaza claim it has hit five times in the last few days.
Meanwhile, the Palestinian Red Crescent Society said on social media that Gaza City’s Al-Quds Hospital is “out of service and no longer operational” because of “the depletion of available fuel and power outage.” The PRCS runs Al-Quds Hospital and said that hundreds of patients were trapped and that over 12,000 people were in the hospital.
The courtyard where injured people are treated has also become a shelter for the displaced since the Israeli incursion began.
Robert Mardini, the director-general of the International Committee of the Red Cross, said that the situation at Al-Shifah Hospital must stop on social media. United Nations humanitarian chief Martin Griffiths said there can be “no justification for acts of war in health care facilities.”
The director of the medical complex, Mohammed Abu salmiya, said that the situation facing hospitals is tragic.
Doctors Without Borders released a voice memo from Dr. Mohammed Obeid from inside Al-Shifa Hospital saying the lives of dozens of babies are in peril after their incubators shut down because fuel to power generators ran out.
There are no electricity and the incubator is malfunctioning, which has led to the deaths of two newborn patients. “So the situation is very, very bad. We need help.
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Israel has not allowed any fuel to enter Gaza for more than a month. Israeli officials have confirmed that the military continues to clash with Hamas militants in the vicinity of hospitals in the the Gaza Strip, but said Al-Shifa is not under siege.
In southern Gaza, where the UN shelters have only one shower for 700 people, those who do manage to evacuate still face Israeli airstrikes.
Washington has tried to discourage Israel from reoccupying Gaza. Secretary of State Antony Blinken has said the U.S. envisions a Palestinian government in both Gaza and the Israeli-occupied West Bank as a step toward Palestinian statehood, which Netanyahu staunchly opposes.
The Palestinian Health Ministry reports over 11,000 people have died in the Gaza area since October 7. Hamas-led attack on Israel that killed about 1,200 people.
WHO chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus on Friday said that Gaza’s medical system is on its knees due to Israeli bombardment of hospitals. The WHO had documented five attacks on five hospitals in a single day in the previous week, Ghebreyesus said. The Palestinian Red Crescent Society claimed that Al-Quds Hospital in Gaza City is “out of service” and no longer operational.