Israeli forces continue to besiege hospital in northern Gaza
As we previously reported, the Israeli military carried out artillery fire targeting northern Gaza’s al-Awda Hospital on Wednesday, while drones also struck water tanks at the health facility.
An Al Jazeera Arabic correspondent in Gaza now reports that Israeli forces are continuing to besiege the hospital in Tal az-Zaatar. Israeli tanks are firing on hospital buildings, including the specialised surgery department. No casualties have been reported so far.
Gaza’s medics prepare to adopt ‘drastic survival mechanisms’ due to Israeli aid blockade
The crisis is spiralling out of control further in Gaza. Medical teams say that what they are seeing is not just a kind of shortage of medical supplies, but a clear breakdown of Gaza’s healthcare system.
They told us that there has been a very sharp decline in the number of cardiac and vascular surgeries performed in Gaza’s barely functioning hospitals.
They have been working around the clock with almost nothing. They have started to reuse basic medical tools, and they are talking about a clear surge in the number of patients who are unable to get basic medical services.
This is the clear outcome of the ongoing Israeli ban on medical supply deliveries to Gaza.
What’s left in warehouses will be enough for no more than a couple of weeks and then they will start to adopt drastic survival mechanisms in order to guarantee the provisioning of at least minimum numbers of operations on a daily basis.
Injured Palestinian children are brought to the Nasser Medical Complex for treatment following an Israeli attack west of Khan Younis, southern Gaza, on May 21
At least 9 killed in Israeli air strike on displaced people sheltering in warehouse
Our colleagues at Al Jazeera Arabic report that nine people have been killed in an Israeli air strike on a warehouse where forcibly displaced Palestinians had taken shelter in central Gaza’s Deir el-Balah.
Local Palestinian media in Gaza have put the death toll at 10, and the victims are reported to be aged between seven and 51 years old.
