2023-11-12 17:30:24
The director of Gaza Strip hospitals, Muhammad Zaqout, noted that the “forced evacuation” of two children’s hospitals in the Strip brought patients “on the streets without medical care.”
Muhammad Zaqout explained, “The forced evacuation of Al-Nasr and Rantisi Children’s Hospitals brought patients out onto the streets without medical care,” adding, “We completely lost contact with the medical staff at Al-Nasr and Rantisi Children’s Hospitals.”
Zaqout called for “saving the children in nurseries because time is running out to save their lives,” after two of the 39 children died after their incubators stopped working at Al-Shifa Hospital, according to doctors and non-governmental organizations.
Muhammad Zaqout said, “We submitted requests to bury the bodies, but everyone who moves in the hospital yard is being targeted.” He added, “We are unable to count the martyrs and wounded due to the inability to reach them.” He continued, “The occupation targeted the vicinity of the Indonesian Hospital and Mehdi Maternity Hospital,” noting that “kidney, cancer, and heart patients have no place to go and no safe passage.” He stressed the need to “bring fuel into the Gaza Strip quickly.”
For her part, Director of the Medical Aid Society for Palestinians (MAP), Melanie Ward, said, “Ambulances are unable to reach the hospital, especially those that have the necessary equipment to transport these children, and there is no hospital that has the capacity to receive them, so we have no indication that operations This transportation can be done safely.”
Officials at Al-Shifa Hospital confirmed several days ago that dozens of bodies were left near the hospital and in its courtyard.
An ambulance driver for Al-Shifa Hospital told Agence France-Presse that ambulances came under sniper fire while trying to approach the bodies.
Al-Quds Hospital, which now houses thousands of displaced people, has become “out of service due to a lack of fuel” for its generators, according to the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies.
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