Intense fighting raged around Gaza hospitals on Sunday, with some of them running out of fuel and power, prompting a top United Nations official to condemn Israel’s attacks on hospitals as “unconscionable” and “reprehensible”.
The Palestine Red Crescent Society said the Al-Quds Hospital in the Gaza Strip was “out of service and no longer operational” due to “depletion of available fuel and power outage”.
Al-Shifa, the largest medical facility that houses thousands of refugees, as well as other hospitals in northern Gaza, were also barely able to care for patients.
Dr Mohammad Qandil of Nasser Hospital in Khan Younis in the southern Gaza Strip said: “Shifa Hospital now isn’t working, no one is allowed in, nobody is allowed out. And if you are wounded or injured around Gaza area, you can’t be evacuated by our ambulance to Shifa Hospital, so Shifa Hospital now is out of service.”
Mr Martin Griffiths, the UN humanitarian aid chief, said hospitals across Gaza had been left with “no power, food or water”, and there had been shooting at civilians as they tried to flee.
“This is unconscionable, reprehensible and must stop,” he said in a post on X, formerly known as Twitter. “There can be no justification for acts of war in healthcare facilities.”
But Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Sunday that Israel had offered fuel to Gaza’s Al-Shifa Hospital.
“On the contrary, we offered actually, last night, to give them enough fuel to operate the hospital, operate the incubators and so on, because we (have) no battle with patients or civilians at all,” he told NBC News.
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