ICU patients’ lives at risk in Gaza’s Al-Aqsa Hospital amid Israel’s war
World • 1d ago
The hospital may be forced in the coming hours to ration electricity so that certain wards can be prioritised.
Israel’s more than two-year genocidal war has decimated Gaza‘s health system, as medical personnel and doctors struggle to treat patients with limited and damaged equipment, with a “ceasefire” doing nothing to ease the peril and suffering the ill face.
According to Gaza’s Health Ministry, more than 1,700 healthcare workers – including doctors, nurses and paramedics – have been killed since Israel’s war began. The United Nations has accused Israel of deliberately targeting Gaza’s health facilities and killing medical personnel to destroy the besieged enclave’s healthcare system.
All medical facilities have been damaged or destroyed
Doctors at Al-Aqsa Hospital, in central Gaza, ...