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Doctor says children at risk as hospital plunged into darkness due to fuel shortages
The AFP news agency reports that mobile phone torches are now as essential as stethoscopes for doctors doing rounds without functioning power generators at the Kamal Adwan Hospital in the northern Gaza Strip.
Fuel shortages were already widespread in the besieged territory but now the severe lack of fuel is further restricting services at the hospitals that are still functioning after 10 months of Israel’s war on the territory and the targeting of medical centres for attack and siege.
A doctor at the hospital – Mahmoud Abu Amsha – told AFP that children are especially in danger of dying due to the lack of fuel to power generators.
“Children in the incubators are threatened with cardiac arrest and death, and there are also seven cases in the intensive care unit, and they will die due to the fuel shortage,” he said.
One million may miss food aid amid displacement, fighting in south, central Gaza: UN
More than a million people in southern and central Gaza may not receive humanitarian food aid rations for August, the UN reports, amid repeated evacuation orders by the Israeli military on top of dire shortages of cooking gas disrupting the operation of food aid kitchens and bakeries.
The dire warning comes as the UN reports that the amount of humanitarian food aid that successfully entered southern Gaza in July was among the lowest level recorded since the start of Israel’s war on the territory in October.
“Intense fighting, damaged roads, a breakdown of law and order, and access challenges along the main humanitarian route between the Kerem Shalom Crossing and Khan Younis and Deir al Balah have led to critical food shortages,” the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (UN OCHA) says in its latest flash assessment.
In Gaza’s north, food insecurity and malnutrition are believed to be “even more alarming” as no commercial supplies of food have reached the area over the past three months, according to the UN report.
Gaza running out of vital medical supplies: Health Ministry
Hospitals and health centres in the enclave have a severe shortage of medicines and medical supplies as Israel’s army keep targeting them, the ministry says in a statement.
Sixty percent of the essential medicines and 83 percent of medical supplies have run out at the ministry’s warehouses, it said on Telegram.
The ministry stressed the situation will lead to a complete halt of medical services, most notably emergency services, operations, intensive care, kidney dialysis services, primary healthcare and mental health.
It appealed to the international community, UN institutions and concerned parties to intervene and provide the necessary medical supplies for Gaza.
