A Palestinian girl carries a young child at Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital in Deir el-Balah, central Gaza, after they were both wounded in the Israeli bombardment of a residential building in the Bureij refugee camp late on Tuesday [Saher Alghorra/AP Photo]
Gaza’s hospitals have been relying on generators powered by humanitarian fuel deliveries to run oxygen machines and other services since all electricity was cut off to the Gaza Strip in October [Mousa Salem/Anadolu images]
The 10-bed stabilisation centre at Kamal Adwan Hospital, the only facility treating severe acute malnutrition in northern Gaza, was evacuated last week.
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Ten-year-old Siraj Yassin suffers from leukaemia, which has destroyed his immune system and left him unable to walk. Doctors at Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital in Gaza say the boy cannot access chemotherapy in Gaza and also cannot get out of the besieged and bombarded territory for treatment now that Israeli forces have shut the only exit through the Rafah crossing into Egypt.
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Palestinians wounded in Israeli strikes on the Bureij refugee camp are given first aid at the Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital in Deir el-Balah on May 25, 2024 in the central Gaza Strip [Bashar Taleb/AFP]
The Kuwaiti Hospital in Rafah in southern Gaza has shut down after two of its medical staff were killed in an Israeli attack just outside its front doors.
The facility is Rafah’s main hospital and was where most of the victims of an Israeli attack on a tent camp for displaced people in Rafah were seeking treatment.
Out of Gaza’s 36 #hospitals, only 16 are functional, but only in a limited manner. All medical facilities lack critical supplies, staff and medicine.
“There is seriously something dystopian about this moment when Rafah is on fire being massacred and Palestinian healthcare is beyond overwhelmed after systematic and targeted sieges on hospitals […] While medical institutions in Canada are still seriously talking about how watermelons are considered offensive.”
Israel’s latest attack on an “area full of tents made of highly flammable material” in Rafah, comes as people in Gaza are completely spent after months struggling to find food, water and shelter.
“They know that there’s no place that is safe. They know that there are no hospitals that they can … rely on for life-saving treatment, given all the systematic assaults on hospitals.”
A Palestinian child, wounded in an Israeli strike on an area designated for displaced people, is assisted at a hospital in Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip, May 26, 2024 [Moaz Abu Taha/ Reuters]
The death toll from Israel attack on the tent camp at Tal as-Sultan area has risen to 40.
Most of the victims were women and children.
Palestine Red Crescent Society (PRCS) said that many of the people inside the tents were burnt alive. The PRCS also said that hospitals in the area are incapable of handling this large number of victims as a result of the occupation’s deliberate destruction of the health system in Gaza.
Israel has intensified its Rafah offensive despite yesterday’s ICJ ruling for it to halt, including bombing residential buildings near the Kuwaiti Hospital.
A series of Israeli air attacks have killed dozens of people throughout northern Gaza, including women and children sheltering in Beit Hanoon.
Northern Gaza’s Kamal Adwan Hospital is out of service as Israeli forces continue to surround it.
A man carries an injured Palestinian child to Al-Aqsa Hospital following an Israeli attack on the Bureij refugee camp, in Deir el-Balah, Gaza, on May 21, 2024 [Ashraf Amra/Anadolu Agency]
As Al-Aqsa Hospital in Deir el-Balah struggles to get fuel, its oxygen generators may run out of power, putting the lives of 20 newborns in peril, warns the UN’s children agency, UNICEF.
Iyad al-Jabri, the medical director at the Al-Aqsa Hospital in Gaza’s Deir el-Balah, said more than 4,000 litres of fuel was required each day to continue operations and care for patients in the medical facility, which is now in darkness as power generators have shut down.
“We have hundreds of patients including the injured and those that are diagnosed with kidney failure and need electricity for their dialysis treatment.”
A patient surrounded by family members sits on a bed in a corridor lit by sunlight seeping through a window after a power cut at the Al-Aqsa Hospital in Deir el-Balah, which has run out of fuel to power generators to keep the lights on in the packed medical facility on May 23, 2024 [Bashar Taleb/AFP]
A man carries an injured child as wounded Palestinians are brought to Al-Aqsa Hospital following an Israeli attacks on Bureij refugee camp, in Deir el-Balah, Gaza on Tuesday [Ashraf Amra/Anadolu Agency]
Izedine Lulu was besieged in Gaza’s al-Shifa Hospital when he heard that Israel had bombed his family home in November. His brothers, sisters and father had all been killed.
The 21-year-old medic could not go to find their bodies because al-Shifa was surrounded by Israeli tanks and snipers. He could only tend to his patients.