Al-Awda Hospital in north Gaza also at risk of closure
As a result of the severe shortage of fuel, al-Awda hospital is shutting down.
This facility is one of the main hospitals here in the northern Gaza Strip that provides medical care for patients and wounded people. We spoke to its director, Dr Mohamed Saleh, and he told us about the dire situation here. He told us also that if this hospital does not receive fuel, it will shut down and will be out of service in the next 24 hours.
We also spoke to patients here, one of whom was a woman who said she has pain in her kidneys but is unable to get an ultrasound scan due to a lack of electricity.
This fuel shortage is threatening thousands of lives here in the northern Gaza Strip and if this hospital shuts down, it will be a medical catastrophe.
Lives of patients at Al-Awda ‘hanging by a thread’
Mohamed Saleh, the director of al-Awda Hospital, is calling for urgent deliveries of fuel to the facility. “The lives of patients are now hanging by a thread, especially as we are the only facility offering orthopaedic treatment,” he told Al Jazeera.
“All surgical operations, 56 in total, have been postponed. If fuel is not delivered soon, all these patients will develop gangrene and inflammation and ultimately have their limbs amputated or lose their lives. In addition, all delivery procedures, particularly emergency C-sections, will be affected. Fuel must be delivered to the hospital without delay.”
Earlier, we reported that officials at the Kamal Adwan Hospital, which is also located in northern Gaza, have warned that the facility will stop working within the next 24 hours due to a lack of fuel and medicines.
Israel bombs Gaza’s Nuseirat refugee camp
Palestinians run for cover after Israeli forces carry out an air attack on the Zagout family home in Deir el-Balah, Gaza on Sunday
Emergency workers and volunteers try to put out a fire that broke after another Israeli attack on the house of the El Saidy family in the Nuseirat refugee camp in Deir el-Balah, Gaza on Sunday
Hezbollah claims attack on Israeli force infiltrating Lebanon
The Lebanese armed group said its fighters shelled and fired rockets at an Israeli force that attempted to infiltrate Lebanon in the Hadab Aita forest area. The attack caused casualties and forced the Israeli troops to retreat, the group said on its Telegram channel.
Earlier, Hezbollah claimed a series of attacks on northern Israel on Sunday, including a rocket attack on military barracks in Beit Hillel and military positions in Jal al-Allam, al-Malikiya, Zabadani and Shtula.
