All hospitals in the northern Gaza Strip, where the densest part of the medical infrastructure of this enclave is located, they stopped workingwith the exception of Al Ahli Hospital, which has 500 patients and can continue to admit more despite difficulties.

“All hospitals in Gaza City (north) and northern Gaza are not functioning. due to lack of electricity, medicine, oxygen, food and water, in addition to explosions and clashes in the surrounding area,” the U.N. Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Aid said in a daily report on the impact of the war between Israel and the Islamist group Hamas on civilians.

Situation Al Shifa Hospital has proven to be the most serious in recent days. because it is the main hospital center in Gaza and has recently been at the center of armed clashes causing damage following Israeli bombings.

According to the UN, over the past two days 32 patients and three premature babies died in Al Shifa as a result of power outages and extremely difficult conditions.

The latest information received from this hospital shows that as of yesterday there were between 600 and 650 hospitalized patients, between 200 and 250 staff and 1,500 internally displaced persons, and 36 infants in incubators and patients requiring dialysis were at imminent risk of death.

The Israeli army ordered evacuation of hospitals in the north of the Strip, but the World Health Organization (WHO) said that this amounted to a death sentence for the collapse of the medical system as a whole and that hospitals in the south had absolutely no capacity – and still do not – to receive patients. .

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At the same time, OCHA noted that Israel continues to “call and put pressure” on the northerners move south, which some 200,000 people have done over the past week, bringing the number of internally displaced people in the Gaza Strip to more than 1.7 million.

(EFE)