2023-11-12 15:51:11
Palestinian Health Minister Mai Alkaila reported this Sunday that Israeli occupation forces are committing atrocities once morest hospitals in the Gaza Strip, particularly the Al-Shifa Medical Complex, which is now surrounded by tanks from all directions.
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In a press release, Alkaila noted that “Israeli occupation forces are not evacuating people from hospitals; instead, they are forcibly removing the wounded and patients to the streets, leaving them facing inevitable death.” .
“This is not an evacuation but an expulsion under threat of weapons,” he said. On the other hand, the Deputy Minister of Health of the Strip stated this Sunday that an Israeli bombardment destroyed the cardiology service building of the Al Shifa hospital, the largest in the Palestinian territory.
Minister of Health Dr. Maï Alkaila:
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“The occupier (Israel) completely destroyed the cardiology department of Al Shifa hospital. (…) The two-story building was completely destroyed in an airstrike,” said Youssef Abu Rish.
The International Committee of the Red Cross announced that there are difficulties in evacuating the Medical Complex, which has more than 60 patients in intensive care, 37 babies in the premature and incubation departments, and more than 500 patients in the dialysis departments.
According to the Gazan minister: “A catastrophe is occurring in hospitals: there are now patients who die without receiving treatment, such as children and adults with kidney failure who die at home without undergoing dialysis sessions.
The Minister of Health confirmed the tragic death of 12 patients, including two newborns, within the Al-Shifa Medical Complex so far as a result of power outages and shortages of medical supplies.
He highlighted that the 3,000 cancer patients who were receiving treatment in the hospitals of Rantisi and Turkey have been abandoned to face imminent death following their forced eviction from these hospitals by the Israeli occupation forces.
“All pregnant women, especially those with high-risk pregnancies, are now in imminent danger as they cannot find anyone to provide them with medical care and services in Gaza. No woman regarding to give birth will find medical assistance,” he warned. Minister Alkaila. .
He further explained that patients and the injured cannot reach Al-Shifa Medical Complex, causing many to lose their lives either due to hemorrhage or lack of essential medicines and necessary treatments.
Alkaila highlighted the critical situation inside the Al-Shifa complex, where medical teams cannot move between sections and buildings due to constant drone fire that threatens anyone inside the complex.
“Another danger threatening the lives of patients is the inability of medical teams to bury 100 martyrs, whose bodies have begun to decompose in the hospital courtyard. Stray dogs have reportedly attacked some of the bodies and debris doctors are accumulating inside the hospital,” he added.
Alkaila continued: “Patients are being injured once more while in hospital beds as a result of the shelling of the occupation of the medical complex. This shelling has affected the water wells, oxygen stations, the main gate of the complex and other facilities “.
He noted that the wounded, patients and medical teams not only lack adequate medical care but also have nothing to eat. Additionally, water is turned off in the complex.
He stressed that the solution now involves supplying the medical complex with electricity, medical supplies, medicines and fuel. Otherwise, the safe evacuation of patients for treatment in Egypt is necessary, as Gaza hospitals can no longer accommodate any more wounded.
Al-Quds Hospital in Gaza suspends all operations amid strict Israeli siege
Separately, the Palestinian Red Crescent Society (PRCS) announced that its Al-Quds Hospital in Gaza City has ceased all operations as a result of fuel shortages and the resulting power outage, amid a strict Israeli military siege.
The hospital is dealing with a severe shortage of medical supplies, food and water.
In a press release, the Palestinian Red Crescent expressed deep concern over the dire humanitarian conditions inside the hospital, saying that its medical teams are making maximum efforts to provide medical care to patients and wounded even through traditional means.
The declaration holds the international community and all signatory countries of the Fourth Geneva Convention responsible for the total collapse of the health system and the catastrophic humanitarian situation in the Gaza Strip, especially in the northern region of the territory.
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