11/11/2023–|Last updated: 11/11/202311:57 AM (Mecca time)
Through heavy bombardment, concentrated sniping, and besiegement with tanks, the Israeli occupation army went far in defying the simplest norms International humanitarian law By continuously targeting hospitals and their surroundings in the Gaza Strip Gaza Which is subjected, for the 36th day, to a bloody aggression that left thousands of martyrs and wounded.
The past days were the bloodiest, as the occupation army launched a brutal campaign against medical institutions, leaving a large number of martyrs and wounded among medical teams and civilians stationed in hospitals searching for a safe spot to protect them from the intensity of the daily bombing that strikes the northern Gaza Strip.
The occupation ignored all warnings of a humanitarian catastrophe that would put the already dilapidated health sector on the verge of collapse, in light of the lack of fuel to operate electricity generators and the huge number of wounded victims of the ongoing war since the seventh of last month.
And he bears witness Al-Shifa Medical Complex The center of Gaza City – which is the largest in the Strip – is the darkest of tragedies, as the occupation forces continue to escalate their attacks and intense bombardment of its surroundings, its gate, and near its square.
Over the past few days, the complex witnessed the influx of displaced people from the north of the Gaza Strip on their way to the south, and they were inside it among thousands of others, against the backdrop of Israeli reports and warnings demanding the evacuation of the north of the Gaza Strip.
The complex and its surroundings are subjected to constant bombardment by the occupation army, claiming that there is a resistance headquarters there, which the Gaza government has repeatedly denied.
The outpatient clinics building in the complex was subjected to bombing by occupation aircraft, resulting in a number of martyrs and wounded. This is the fourth targeting of the complex since dawn on Friday.
Mass grave
In contact with Al Jazeera, the Director of the Ministry of Health in Gaza, Dr. Munir Al-Bursh, said that they are trapped inside Al-Shifa Hospital and are forced to dig a mass grave to bury more than 100 bodies found in the hospital’s courtyards, because they cannot go out to bury them.
From inside the Al-Shifa Complex, a Palestinian doctor recorded a video clip revealing the deteriorating situation inside the emergency department and the collapse of the level of services in the largest complex in the Strip.
For his part, the director of the complex, Muhammad Abu Salmiya, told Al Jazeera that their fuel stock would end today, and warned that hospital services would stop completely if fuel did not enter it.
In this context, Doctors Without Borders said that the bombing on Al-Shifa Hospital has greatly intensified over the past few hours.
The organization quoted Dr. Muhammad Abu Mughaysib, the hospital official, as saying, “Since this morning, many medical teams affiliated with Doctors Without Borders have stopped working in the supported hospitals in Gaza City due to the ongoing bombing.”
It is noteworthy that Al-Shifa Hospital is the main operational health facility in Gaza City that provides emergency and surgical care, and there are hundreds of patients and displaced civilians inside it.
call for help
In turn, activists broadcast a distress call from inside Al-Nasr Hospital for Children, which has been under siege for four days, with pediatric patients inside, including children in intensive care, along with a number of displaced people.
In Al Awda Hospital in northern Gaza, a video clip taken by a doctor showed the effects of the Israeli bombing that targeted the hospital and its surroundings at night.
The video documented cases of patients and employees who were injured by the bombing, as well as damage to ambulances and cars belonging to the hospital and employees, and external destruction caused by the Israeli bombing.
Al-Quds Hospital – also called the Palestinian Red Crescent Society Hospital – also witnessed casualties as Israeli snipers targeted the hospital.
Pictures from inside the hospital showed the failure of medical teams to rescue an injured person in an Israeli bombing due to a power outage after they ran out of fuel.
Al-Rantisi Children’s Hospital, in turn, has been under siege since yesterday, and Israeli tanks are stationed in its vicinity. His director warned of an imminent disaster and the inability of the hospital to provide any service.
Power outage
In a remarkable development in the past hours, the electricity supply to the Indonesian Hospital departments was completely cut off, and all surgical operations in the hospital stopped as the bombing continued in its surroundings.
Displaced people from Gaza who arrived at the vicinity of Nasser Hospital in Khan Yunis, south of the Gaza Strip, to escape the Israeli bombing, said that the occupation forces bombed them with tanks on their way to the hospital.
Eyewitnesses who arrived at Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital in the central Gaza Strip said that the occupation forces bombed displaced people on Salah al-Din Street who were on their way to the south of the Gaza Strip.
In this context, Ashraf Al-Qudra, spokesman for the Ministry of Health in Gaza, described in a separate statement published by the ministry that the bombing in the vicinity of hospitals in Gaza City and the northern Strip was “insane.”
For its part, the International Committee of the Red Cross announced on Friday that the destruction being caused to hospitals in Gaza has become unbearable and must stop.
The moment the Israeli occupation bombed the vicinity of the Indonesian hospital in northern Gaza pic.twitter.com/MOuHuv9x49
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She explained that the health care system in Gaza, which is operating beyond its capacity, with meager supplies and insecurity, has reached an irreversible stage, putting the lives of thousands of wounded, sick and displaced people at risk.
Earlier Friday, Palestinian Health Minister Mai Alkaila announced that 18 hospitals in the Gaza Strip had been out of service since the start of the Israeli aggression on October 7.
The World Health Organization confirmed that 20 hospitals in Gaza are closed, while others are operating partially.
For 36 days, the Israeli army has been waging an air, land and sea war on Gaza, “during which it destroyed residential neighborhoods on top of their residents,” killing 11,078 Palestinians, including 4,506 children, 3,027 women, and 678 elderly people, and wounding 27,490 with various injuries, according to official sources.
