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Al-Shifa hospital ran out of food, water, electricity: Director

  • By Al Mayadeen English
  • Source: Agencies
  • 16 Nov 2023 20:01
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Although the oxygen reserves have been depleted, Al-Shifa hospital director Muhammad Abu Salmiya stated that hospital staff have chosen to stay in the building, refusing to evacuate without the patients.

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  • Al-Shifa Hospital is the largest hospital in the Gaza Strip  (Reuters)
    Al-Shifa Hospital is the largest hospital in the Gaza Strip (Reuters)

The director of Al-Shifa Medical Complex Muhammad Abu Salmiya on Thursday described the conditions inside the facility as "catastrophic," noting that all facilities had run out of food, water, electricity, and oxygen amid "Israel's" ongoing genocidal campaign. 

"The hospital has turned into a large prison without water, electricity, and food," Abu Salmiya told reporters, adding that "the patients are crying for water and food."

He added that the IOF bombed the hospital's main water pipe. Although the oxygen reserves have been depleted, Abu Salmiya stated that hospital staff have chosen to stay in the building, refusing to evacuate without the patients.

"We will not leave the patients alone: we will live and die together. Water shortage is making it hard for us, but we will try our best to survive," he told reporters.

Abu Salmiya refuted the Israeli forces' assertions regarding alleged gunfire from the hospital's premises, stating, "There was no gunfire from inside the hospital toward the Israeli soldiers."

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He further mentioned that the medical staff could no longer offer care to the patients or move between the hospital's buildings due to snipers operating within the facility's territory. Additionally, the area was being patrolled by Israeli drones.

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Several medical facilities demolished

The Palestinian Ministry of Health in Gaza reported earlier that the IOF had demolished several medical departments during their raid on Al-Shifa.

The ministry specified that the IOF demolished the radiology department and detonated the burns trauma and nephrology departments.

In a statement, Dr. Abu Salmiya said that the departments of maternity, emergency, surgery have also been targeted, among others.

🚨JUST NOW🚨: Al Shifa.

Dr.. Muhammad Abu Salamiya from inside Al-Shifa Hospital:

The occupation army is still storming the hospital departments, including radiology, burns, maternity, emergency, surgery, and others, and its tanks are surrounding us from all entrances, and…

— Eye On Palestine (@EyeOnPalestines) November 16, 2023

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