Dr. Alice Rothchild, from Jewish Voice for Peace, an activist organization has disclosed that there is currently nothing positive about the situation at hospitals in Gaza.
“A modern 21st-century hospital needs electricity and power to use all of its instruments and equipment. Without fuel, even the electric generators and ambulances cannot work,” she noted.
“Think about the hospital personnel. The staff is exhausted, traumatised. Many of them are getting sick because there are contagious diseases that are now running rampant,” she said.
“What’s going to happen is that people are going to suffer, and some of them are going to die. They could die slowly with sepsis, infection or gangrene and some are going to die suddenly when their respirator stops working.”
Dr. Alice Rothchild
Gaza’s Minister of Health Mai al-Kaila told the Palestinian news agency that the hospital staff of Al-Shifa Hospital is struggling to bury the remains of at least 100 people who were killed in recent days following relentless Israeli bombardment of the besieged enclave.
She stressed that the situation is endangering the health of the hospital workers who also have to deal with accumulating medical waste inside the hospital complex.
Al-Shifa Hospital has already shut its doors to new patients, even as it continues to deal with thousands of refugees who are also taking shelter there.
According to reports, Israeli snipers have been firing at anyone near the hospital.
According to the UN, three nurses have reportedly been killed at Gaza’s Al-Shifa Hospital.
Twelve patients, including two premature babies, have also died at the hospital since a power outage started on Saturday, November 11, 2023, the UN said. Reports from the Gaza Ministry of Health showed that a third premature baby has also died.
Meanwhile, UN offices across Asia lowered flags to half-mast on Monday as staff observed a minute’s silence in memory of colleagues killed in Gaza.
UNRWA has reported over 100 of its employees killed in the Gaza Strip since the war began on October 7.
The blue and white UN flag was lowered at 9:30am local time at UN offices including those in Bangkok, Beijing, Colombo, Dili, Hanoi and Tokyo.
Other UN headquarters around the world will hold similar memorials throughout the day on Monday.
Dreadful situation across Gaza Strip
The situation at the besieged enclave is very dreadful.
According to reporters, Palestinians in the Gaza Strip, particularly for those living in central Gaza, the Nuseirat refugee camp and Khan Younis endured overnight strikes.
At Khan Younis, a residential home was attacked and destroyed.
However, the tragedy of this attack was that the evacuees who had just fled the warzone in the north and come here for safety were killed inside.
The Nuseirat refugee camp was bombed heavily, a mosque and surrounding neighbourhoods were also destroyed and many people are still under the rubble.
In the north, the Jabalia refugee camp, which has been a target of bombardment since the beginning of the war, was attacked again and 19 people were killed.
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