Northern Gaza hospital overwhelmed with casualties amid ongoing Israeli attacks: Director
The acting director of al-Awda Hospital says the hospital has been inundated with casualties, as dozens of injured people continue to arrive daily. “Israeli forces are targeting everything that moves in northern Gaza,” Mohammed Saleh said in a statement.
Medical staff are grappling with severe shortages of medicines, supplies and fuel, while food is running critically low for both patients and healthcare workers, he added. “If the siege continues, we are on the brink of a disaster,” Saleh warned.
He called on UN agencies and international partners to urgently facilitate the delivery of medical supplies, fuel and food to sustain the hospital’s operations.
UNRWA ‘very near’ to possible breaking point on Gaza operations
“I will not hide the fact that we might reach a point that we won’t be able any more to operate,” UNRWA chief Philippe Lazzarini told journalists at a news conference in Berlin.
“We are very near to a possible breaking point. When will it be? I don’t know. But we are very near of that,” he said.
Two people killed in Israeli drone attack on Gaza’s az-Zawayda
Over the span of half an hour, the whole scene turned quite chaotic at al-Aqsa Hospital here.
The Israeli military used a drone to fire a missile on a group of people in az-Zawayda town. Two people were reported killed on the main streets of az-Zawayda – they were brought here to the hospital via civilian vehicles.
The ambulance could not be moved from the hospital simply because there is not enough fuel for the ambulance to be dispatched. And we could see one of the bodies that was removed from the back seat. Only his upper part was intact, and the lower part, the lower limbs, were in a plastic bag.
And the crowd here is made up of the surviving family members and those who were on the street who followed the civilian car that brought the bodies here to the hospital.
We could hear people saying that this is not going to end any time soon and that the Israeli military is going to kill everyone by these relentless attacks that happen without any prior warning whatsoever.
‘Entire families have disappeared’ in northern Gaza siege
It’s day 12 of the Israeli military’s major attack in northern Gaza with the Jabalia refugee camp bearing the brunt of ground assaults and bombardment. Hospitals have received about 350 bodies since the attack began, according to Dr Mounir al-Bursh, the director-general of Gaza’s Health Ministry.
More than half the dead are women and children and many bodies remain in the streets and under the rubble, with rescue teams unable to reach them because of Israeli strikes.
“Entire families have disappeared,” said al-Bursh.
People pull the body of a Palestinian boy from the rubble of a house in northern Gaza City on Wednesday
