All hospitals in Loop capital are out of service and only two small clinics in the city remain operational, confirmed today the Gaza Ministry of Health, controlled by Hamas.
“And every hour in the south there is an attack, a massacre, with more martyrs and wounded“said the general director of hospitals of the Ministry of Health, Mohamed Zaqut.
For days, the Ministry and the World Health Organization (WHO) had warned that only the Al Ahli hospital of the city, after the total collapse of the rest of the medical complexes in the north of the Strip, which have suffered intense bombing by Israeli aviation.
Israel accuses Hamas to hide in civilian infrastructure, including hospitals, and in fact, he assures that in the Al Shifa hospitalwhich was the most important in the entire Strip, the Islamist group hides its main command center in underground tunnels.
With that argument, the Army began a total siege of the hospital last week, which it entered days later in search of evidence that would demonstrate that there are “terrorist infrastructure” and trace of the hostages, who suspect that they were hiding there at some point.
Amid anguish and chaos, most of the medical staff and patients who were at the Shifa hospital yesterday left it after a military ultimatum from Israelwhose Army denied having given.
Their staff claimed that they were taken out at gunpoint and forced to flee on foot carrying white flags.
At least five doctors remained inside the hospital to supervise the coordination of the exit of some 120 seriously injured people who could not get out on their own, as well as 30 premature babies.
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Experts from the WHO and other humanitarian agencies United Nations Today they managed to access the Al Shifa hospital, to assist in the evacuation of the wounded, who will mostly be transferred to the European and Nasser hospitals, both in the south of the Strip.
He Al Shifa had been out of service for days, precariously caring for the sick and wounded due to the power outage and lack of fuel due to the Israeli siege, which is why six premature babies have died in recent days – another three died last week -, six dialysis patients and another 22 intensive care patients.
In the last week, other important hospitals in the north of the Gaza Striplike the Indonesian, the Al Qudseither the Rantisi They have also been out of service after suffering Israeli attacks or due to a lack of fuel necessary to operate.
