Gaza’s healthcare situation ‘getting worse and worse’
Gaza’s “healthcare sector is still gradually deteriorating” nearly a year on since the war started, according to Dr Mohammed Abu Mughaisib, the deputy medical coordinator for Doctors Without Borders in Gaza.
“Some hospitals are partially damaged. Number of patients is huge. There’s a big issue with medical supplies. All international medical NGOs are suffering from delays in supplies entering Gaza. The situation is getting worse and worse,” he said.
“We have three hospitals partially functioning in the south of the Gaza Strip which are overwhelmed with trauma patients as well as normal patients,” he said.
“There is one hospital in the middle area which is run by the government and serves more than one million people who are sheltering there [in central Gaza]. In the pediatric ward, for example, there are 40 beds for 200 children who are lying on the floor.”
With the world’s attention now shifting to the Israeli attacks on Lebanon, he said he expects the situation to get even more difficult in Gaza.
At least 16 killed in Israeli attack on Gaza today
At least 16 people have been killed across Gaza since dawn, medical sources told Al Jazeera.
Earlier, we reported that an Israeli raid in Deir el-Balah, central Gaza, killed at least four people, while two other Palestinians were killed in an attack in northern Gaza.
Palestinians examine destroyed tents set up around Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital following an Israeli attack in Deir el-Balah, Gaza
Israeli attacks in Gaza have killed 41,615 Palestinians, health ministry say
As Israel expands its war on multiple fronts in the region, strikes in Gaza have shown little sign of abating.
Israeli attacks in Gaza have killed at least 20 Palestinians and injured another 108 people in the past 24 hours, according to the Ministry of Health there. In total, at least 41,615 Palestinians have been killed and another 96,359 people wounded, the ministry reported on Monday.
The ministry said a number of victims are still under debris and on the roads, and ambulance and civil defense crews cannot reach them. At least 10,000 people are missing and believed to be entombed under rubble in Gaza, according to the Government Media Office there.
Relief workers previously told CNN that damaged roads from Israeli strikes have impeded attempts to reach survivors.
Palestinians inspect a vehicle destroyed following an Israeli attack in Khan Younis, Gaza on September 30
Israeli forces arrest 5 Palestinians in Nablus, storm Qalandiya camp
The Israeli military stormed the eastern and western areas of the occupied West Bank city of Nablus, as well as the old Askar camp to the east, where clashes erupted, Wafa reports.
Israeli forces arrested three men in Nablus, while two brothers were arrested after their homes were raided in the camp, it said.
Israeli forces have arrested two men from the Qalandiya camp, north of occupied Jerusalem, while they have also stormed the nearby Shu’fat camp area and begun demolishing structures.
