Surrounded by the sound of bombs, with terrified patients huddled far from windows, fuel running low and clean water gone, the acting director of Al Awda Hospital, one of the last hospitals in northern Gaza, said he was grappling with a grim sense of deja vu.
Since Sunday, about 150 people including doctors, injured patients and infants, two of them born just days ago have been trapped inside Al Awda, Dr. Salha said, amid a renewed Israeli offensive in the north.
The hospital was effectively besieged by Israeli forces, Dr. Salha said in a phone interview and voice messages. People inside the hospital are unable to leave, outside help cannot reach them and ambulances cannot respond to calls to bring in the injured.
The dire conditions at the hospital are part of a pattern that has played out repeatedly across the Gaza Strip over more than seven months of war. Israeli forces have surrounded and raided hospital after hospital, claiming they are being used by Hamas fighters.
#gaza-conflict #hospitals-under-siege #humanitarian-crisis #israeli-military-operations #medical-care-access
[
add
]
[
|
|
...
]