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SvennoJ on 10 May 2024
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Gaza death toll rises

At least 34,943 Palestinians have been killed and 78,572 wounded in Israeli attacks on Gaza since October 7, its Health Ministry says. The ministry added that 39 people were killed and 58 injured in the latest 24-hour reporting period.


Displaced Palestinians live in tents in Deir el-Balah as fighting rages

Most of the 2.3 million Palestinians in the Gaza Strip are displaced in Rafah in the southern part of the enclave, but hundreds of thousands are living in tents in other areas as well.


Hospitals, ambulances face imminent shutdown as fuel runs out in Gaza: UN

The UN’s Office for Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) warned in a report that unless Israel allows fuel into Gaza immediately, five main hospitals and five field hospitals will have to shut down before the end of the week.

A total of 28 ambulances, 17 primary healthcare centres, 23 medical facilities in al-Mawasi, and 10 mobile clinics that provide immunisations, trauma care and nutrition services will have to halt operations as well, it said.

“Without fuel to run generators, there is a critical risk of losing patients in intensive care units [ICU], including newborns in neonatal ICUs, trauma patients requiring emergency surgeries and pregnant women in need of caesarian sections.

“Furthermore, patients suffering from kidney failure would be deprived of vital hemodialysis treatment.”


‘Newborns will die if Israeli attacks continue’: Doctor

A medical aid group operating in Gaza has warned that newborn babies could die if fuel does not enter the Palestinian territory.

As we previously reported, the UN’s humanitarian office said unless Israel allows fuel into Gaza, five hospitals and five field hospitals will have to shut down before the end of the week.

Dr Dorotea Gucciardo of the medical group Glia said 25 babies are relying on incubators in the neonatal intensive care unit (NICU) at the Emirati Maternity Hospital in Rafah. “”That’s 25 babies whose lives are at immediate risk if these incubators are shut off,” Gucciardo said.

Even once fuel is restored, “these newborns’ futures are bleak”, said Dr Tarek Loubani, Glia’s medical director, stressing that Israel’s incursion into Rafah has put them at “incredible risk”. “Newborns will die if the Israeli attacks continue.”