2023-11-13 21:05:30
It looks like the hospitals of the northern part of the Gaza Strip have entered the front line of the war. Gaza City’s largest medical institution, the Al Sífa Hospital, was hit by Israeli tanks on Monday, and according to various reports, the hospital and its surroundings turned into a battlefield and a cemetery at the same time.
According to the Israeli army, Hamas has a command center just below Al Sifah hospital, and is using the hospital’s residents as human shields.
One thing is certain: in the past few days, there have been fights near several important hospitals in Gaza, some of them have already been largely evacuated, and other hospitals are practically inoperable due to the lack of fuel, water, food and medicine supplies. Deputy head of the Hamas-controlled Ministry of Health in the Gaza Strip, Yusef Abu Riz he told the AFP news agency that all hospitals in northern Gaza were “inoperable”.
Back at Al Sífa hospital: doctors have warned that the lives of more than thirty premature babies are at risk without the fuel needed to run the incubators. Fuel would be needed to operate the backup generators, as the normal electricity supply had already been terminated by the State of Israel.
According to the Israeli army, Hamas rejected the fuel offered to feed the babies, but the hospital staff claimed that if they collected the little fuel offered by the Israeli army, they would be attacked. The Israeli army denied this.
The head of the Gaza Ministry of Health told the BBC that more than a hundred corpses have now been piled up in the yard of the Al Sífa hospital, and there is also no working clay available to cool the human remains.
Christian Lindmeier, the spokesperson of the World Health Organization (WHO) told the BBC that, in addition to premature babies, the hospital cannot perform kidney dialysis for forty-five patients who would need it. He added that six hundred patients remained in the hospital, and the rest of the people were hiding in the corridors.
According to doctors, corpses are starting to pile up both inside the hospital and outside the building. A WHO spokesperson said: the hospital is increasingly acting like a cemetery and expressed concern about the unburied corpses.
According to the UN refugee agency, UNRWA, the fuel depot that has been used so far has run out and will no longer be able to supply fuel to the health facilities from tomorrow. In addition, they cannot accept the aid shipments from Egypt.
Benjamin Netanyahu one of the chief advisers of the Israeli Prime Minister Mark Regev he told the BBC: Hamas does not want to find a solution to the lack of fuel needed to save premature babies at Al Sifah hospital. According to him, they just want “the pictures to show a state of crisis”.
We bought fuel specifically for babies and incubators. No one wants to see these babies get into trouble
– said the chief adviser of the Israeli Prime Minister.
Meanwhile, a Palestinian woman told the BCC on Monday afternoon that Israeli forces invaded a clinic in the western part of Gaza City and told the eight hundred refugees seeking refuge there to leave, and the young men were separated. The Israeli military says it is investigating the report.
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