Al-Shifa hospital’s cardiac ward destroyed; Al-Quds runs out of fuel, power
Israel has destroyed the cardiac ward of Gaza City’s al-Shifa Hospital, while al-Quds hospital has suspended services after running out of fuel, according to media reports.
Palestinian Minister of Health Mai al-Kaila says Israeli forces “are not evacuating people from hospitals; instead, they are forcibly evicting the wounded and patients onto the streets, leaving them to face inevitable death”.
Meanwhile, the Palestine Red Crescent Society (PRCS) announced that al-Quds Hospital is no longer operational due to a lack of fuel and a power outage.
“The cessation of services is due to depletion of available fuel and power outages,” the PRCS said in a statement.
“Medical staff are making every effort to provide care to patients and the wounded, even resorting to conventional medical methods amid dire humanitarian conditions and a shortage of medicine, food and fuel.”
This comes a day after al-Shifa hospital, Gaza’s largest, said it would be suspending services.
Palestinian health ministry officials say al-Rantisi Hospital, al-Nasr Children’s Hospital, and the psychiatric hospital have been surrounded by Israeli tanks and soldiers, who are telling all people inside to leave.
The siege follows a series of overnight air strikes on several of Gaza’s hospitals, including al-Shifa.
Responding to the Israeli forces’ demand to evacuate al-Shifa Hospital, Health Ministry spokesperson Ashraf al-Qudra said that “it is absolutely impossible to evacuate those wounded”.
Al-Qudra said that a number of children died when they were forced by Israeli forces to evacuate to the streets because there were no life support devices.
“Therefore, we do not want to repeat this crime against the 650 patients inside the Shifa Medical Complex. [Additionally] the complex cannot be evacuated of patients to hospitals in the southern Gaza Strip, which are also crowded with the sick and will also stop working in less than two days due to the lack of fuel in their generators,” he said.
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