All hospitals in the Gaza capital are closed and only two small clinics in the city remain open, Gaza’s Hamas-controlled health ministry confirmed this Sunday.

“And every hour in the south there is an attack, a massacre, more and more martyrs and wounded,” said the director general of hospitals at the Ministry of Health, Mohamed Zakout.

In addition, the ministry reported that 30 premature babies at Al Shifa Hospital They will be transferred to Egypt to receive adequate medical care there. The babies will travel without parents or relatives, a ministry source confirmed.

For several days, the ministry and the World Health Organization (WHO) had warned that only Al Ahly Hospital was functioning in the city, following the complete destruction of other medical complexes in the north of the sector. was subjected to intense bombing by Israeli aircraft.

Israel accuses Hamas of hide in civilian infrastructure, including hospitals, and in general, he claims that in the Al-Shifa hospital, which was the most important in the entire sector, the Islamist group hides its main command center in underground tunnels.

With this argument the army began total siege of the hospital, which he entered a few days later in search of evidence confirming the presence of “terrorist infrastructure” and traces of hostages they suspect were hiding there at some point.

Amid the anguish and chaos, most of the medical staff and patients present at Al Shifa Hospital yesterday They abandoned him after Israel’s military ultimatum. whose army denied giving.

His employees assured that they pulled them out at gunpoint and they were forced to flee on foot with white flags.

The evacuation that took place yesterday Saturday led to forced departure of 2,500 internally displaced persons refugees in hospitalas well as doctors and patients.

After that they stayed at the medical center. only 25 medical workers and 291 patients without mobility, some of them are in extremely critical condition. Among them, two are in intensive care, 22 are on dialysis and 30 are premature babies who will finally be transferred to Egyptian territory.

A little over a week nine of the 39 babies died who ended up in the center due to a lack of oxygen and energy in the incubators, the Ministry of Health reports.

Experts from WHO and other UN humanitarian agencies succeeded gain access to Al Shifa Hospital to assist in the evacuation of the woundedwhich will mainly be transferred to the European Hospital and the Nasser Hospital, both in the south of the sector.

Al-Shifa did not work for several days. negligent care of the sick and injured due to power cuts and fuel shortages due to the Israeli blockade, six premature babies have died in recent days – three more died last week – six patients on dialysis and another 22 patients in intensive care units.

Last week, other major hospitals in the northern Gaza Strip like Indonesian, Al-Quds or RantisThey have also been rendered inoperative due to Israeli attacks or due to a lack of fuel needed to operate.

(according to information from EFE And Aristegui News)