GENEVA (AA) – The World Health Organization (WHO) has said that the “best way” to ensure the safety of patients as well as civilians taking shelter at Gaza’s Al-Shifa Hospital is not a risky evacuation but “stopping hostilities now.” At a UN press conference in Geneva, WHO spokesperson Margaret Harris said t...
ANKARA (AA) – Health authorities in Gaza denied on Tuesday Israel’s claims that it was coordinating the transfer of incubators into the Gaza Strip, which could possibly enable the evacuation of newborn babies from Al-Shifa Hospital. Hundreds of patients and dozens of newborn babies, some of them premature, remain trapped as Israeli...
RAMALLAH, Palestine (AA) – The Palestinian Red Crescent Society said Tuesday that the Israeli army detained a Palestinian from inside an ambulance while on the way to a hospital. The Red Crescent said the incident took place in Tulkarem in the northern the occupied West Bank, and Israeli forces are hindering the work of medical […...
Jerusalem, Undefined – AFP Gaza’s main hospital has been forced to bury scores of dead patients in a mass grave, its director said Tuesday. At least 179 people, including babies and patients who died in the intensive care unit, were buried in the “mass grave” at Gaza’s biggest hospital, said director Mohammad Abu ...
Palestinian Territories – AFP Thousands of people remained trapped in Gaza’s largest hospital Monday, where evacuations have been hampered by Israeli attacks. Conditions are worsening for hundreds of patients and thousands of others sheltering around Al-Shifa hospital — which has become the focus in the five-week-old war. The...
ISTANBUL (AA) – The death toll from a power outage at the Al-Shifa Hospital in Gaza City has risen to 15, including six premature babies, the hospital director said Monday. “Six premature babies and nine injured people at the hospital’s intensive care unit (ICU) died today as a result of the power outage,” Mohamed Abu […]
Palestinian Territories – AFP The hospitals in the centre of the heaviest north Gaza fighting have been forced out of service amid shortages and combat, the health ministry said Monday, adding the number of patients dying in the biggest medical centre had risen. UN agencies and doctors inside the facility warned the effects of the [&hell...
The death toll in Sunday’s Israeli attack on a home in Khan Younis, in southern Gaza, rose to 31 on Monday, according to media reports. Meanwhile, Gaza’s health ministry reported that six premature babies and nine patients had died since electrical shortages began affecting al-Shifa Hospital. Gaza’s two largest hospitals, al-Shifa and al...
ANKARA (AA) – Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF), a humanitarian healthcare organization, has said that the majority of the young Palestinians it received at Jenin Hospital in the West Bank had life-threatening bullet wounds in their abdomens and lower thighs. “Most of the patients we receive have been shot in the abdomen and legs,” Dr...
The World Health Organization (WHO) has reiterated its confidence in the death toll reported by the health ministry in Gaza. The ministry says more than 11,000 people have been killed in Gaza since Israel started bombarding the territory – in response to the 7 October Hamas attacks that killed about 1,200 people in Israel. Speaking [&hel...
