“The hospital is completely full and things have started to run low. And this is only day four,” said Ghassan Abu-Sittah , a surgeon at Gaza City’s main hospital, Al-Shifa .
“The situation continues to deteriorate, the number of patients, especially kids, that are coming in with horrendous injuries,” he said, his voice trailing off .
“This morning there was a child, a young girl, with indescribable facial injuries whose mother is a doctor at Al-Shifa who was killed when their home was targeted. Last night, another 10-year-old boy with also devastating facial injuries who was taken out from the rubble of his home in Sheikh Radwan neighbourhood.”
A few hours after the Palestinian minister for energy said Gaza’s only power station had enough fuel to last another 12 hours at most, Gaza’s energy authority said the fuel had run out.
The generators that many across Gaza have struggled to keep running in order to power homes and hospitals appeared set to stop running due to lack of fuel, with no deliveries available due to the closure of Gaza’s southern border crossing with Egypt.
“Soon all services vital for the survival of the population, including hospitals, will no longer function,” said Gaza’s Al Mezan Centre for Human Rights .
The Palestinian Civil Defence, responsible for search and rescue in Gaza, said a large number of people remain trapped under the rubble of their destroyed homes.
The organisation said on Tuesday that its rescue workers had been unable to retrieve corpses from under the wreckage due to Israeli airstrikes as well as a lack of supplies that would enable search and rescue work.
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