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...
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...
GENEVA (AA) – European Commissioner for Crisis Management Janez Lenarcic has demanded that hospitals in Gaza be protected, calling for an immediate de-escalation of hostilities. “The humanitarian catastrophe in Gaza is beyond words,” Lenarcic said on social media platform X, adding, “I urge the warring parties to de-escalate ...
JERUSALEM (AA) – Israeli forces bombed Al-Shifa Hospital in Gaza again on Saturday, this time targeting the Intensive Care Unit (ICU), injuring several staff members on duty and putting some baby patients at risk of death due to a lack of oxygen after a power outage. Israeli forces bombed the ICU and the hospital is […]
WASHINGTON (AA) – WHO Director-General Dr. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said on Friday that half of the hospitals in Gaza are non-operational, stressing that the health system in the Palestinian enclave is “on its knees”. “Half of the Gaza Strip’s 36 hospitals and two-thirds of its primary health care centers are not func...
ISTANBUL (AA) – The electricity was cut off at the Indonesian Hospital in the Jabalia region in northern Gaza, where thousands of displaced Palestinians, as well as the wounded and sick, are taking shelter, according to the Health Ministry. The generators stopped running due to fuel depletion and the hospital was plunged into darkness, i...
