All hospitals in northern Gaza out of service: Health Ministry
GAZA CITY, Palestine (AA) – All hospitals in the northern Gaza Strip are currently “out of service”, Health Ministry spokesman Ashraf al-Qudra said on Thursday.
He said medical teams are facing difficulties in work at the Al-Shifa Hospital.
“Despite the difficulties, we will keep up attempts to run any hospital in the Gaza Strip,” al-Qudra added.
The spokesman noted that Nasser Hospital in the city of Khan Younis, southern Gaza, is crowded with about 1,000 wounded people, with patients and injured people lying on the hospital floor.
The Government Media Office also quoted Maher Shamiyya, a ministry official, as saying Al-Shifa is without electricity and is full of displaced people.
According to the Gaza authorities and international health organizations, relief and medical supplies are entering Gaza in very limited quantities, while a lack of fuel, barred by Israel since Oct. 7, remains the major obstacles to run the hospitals.
Israel resumed its military offensive on the Gaza Strip on Dec. 1 after the end of a weeklong suspension. It has killed at least 16,248 Palestinians and injured more than 43,616 others in relentless air and ground attacks on the enclave since Oct. 7 following an attack by Hamas. The Israeli death toll in the Hamas attack stood at 1,200, according to official figures.
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