Two hospitals in Southern Gaza are not functioning
A hospital in the Gaza Strip is a shelter for terrified patients and medical staff, and Israel is rooting out Hamas activity at the Medical Centers
One of the biggest hospitals in the Gaza Strip has been reduced to a shelter for a small group of terrified patients and medical staff, while health officials warned on Monday that food and fuel supplies were almost gone at a hospital that has been under siege for nearly a month.
Israel says it is rooting out Hamas activity at the medical centers, which it says Hamas has used to hide military operations — accusations it has made about multiple hospitals in Gaza, backing up some claims with evidence of Hamas tunnels. Hamas and health officials deny those charges, and aid groups have called on Israel to respect international laws protecting hospitals from attack.
The World Health Organization reported that 14 patients were evacuated from the second-largest hospital in Gaza on Sunday. The Palestine Red Crescent Society said 18 more were evacuated on Monday. According to the World Health Organization, there are more than 150 patients that need to be evacuated by the Israeli military.
There are 15 health care workers who are caring for the remaining patients without electricity, a backup generator, tap water, food, or medical supplies. The W.H.O. director general said on Sunday that the man was no longer functional.
An Israeli military evacuation notice warning people to move to the southern part of the Gazan village Al-Mawasi: a humanitarian response from the world food program
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The new evacuation notice given by Israel’s military on Tuesday told people in the two Gaza City neighborhoods to move to an area around the seaside village of Al-Mawasi, west of Khan Younis in the southern part of the enclave. The notice was posted in Arabic on social media, but communication networks have been severely disrupted in Gaza, so it was unclear how many people saw it.
The World Food Program had stopped deliveries in the north on Tuesday, due to scenes of chaos as teams faced looters, hungry crowds and gunfire in recent days.
Another convoy on Monday “faced complete chaos and violence due to the collapse of civil order,” the statement added, saying that several trucks were looted and a driver was beaten.
The safety and security must be ensured if W.F.P is to deliver vital food aid to desperate people in Gaza.
It cited the “unprecedented levels of desperation” witnessed by its teams as evidence of Gaza’s “precipitous slide into hunger” and pointed to a U.N. report published on Monday that said acute malnutrition had surged in the northern part of the enclave.
Hundreds of thousands of people responded, and more than half of Gaza’s population is now living in makeshift lodgings and tents. There was a shortage of food and water in Gaza, which led some displaced to return to the north.
Israel has reduced one of Gaza’s biggest hospitals to a shelter for terrified patients and medical staff, the WHO said on Monday. The hospital had been under siege for nearly a month. The WHO added that 14 patients were evacuated from the hospital on Sunday, adding that there are more than 150 patients that need to be evacuated by the Israeli military.