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Israel surrounds Indonesian and al-Awda hospitals in northern Gaza
Satellite images reviewed by Al Jazeera show Israeli army vehicles surrounding the Indonesian Hospital in the northern Gaza Strip. The vehicles are stationed 60 to 100 metres from the hospital building, where a number of medical staff, patients and companions are still sheltering.
The Israeli army has also surrounded al-Awda Hospital in Tel al-Zaatar, close to the Indonesian Hospital.
The images showed a fire in the hospital’s medicine warehouse, which lasted for days until civil defence teams managed to get coordination to control it. This warehouse is the only supply source for the hospital.
Local reports confirmed that Israeli army vehicles are advancing in the vicinity of al-Awda, and the hospital area is under continuous attack. The Tel al-Zaatar area and its surroundings have been subjected to continuous Israeli bombing and incursions for at least two weeks.
Fast facts: Gaza hospitals under Israeli fire
Gaza’s healthcare system is on the brink of collapse as hospitals and medical facilities continue to come under Israeli fire.
- In the north, the Indonesian, Kamal Adwan, al-Shifa, al-Ahli and al-Awda hospitals have been repeatedly targeted.
- In central Gaza, Al-Aqsa Hospital in Deir el-Balah has also been hit.
- In southern Gaza, the Nasser Medical Complex and the European Gaza Hospital in Khan Younis have also come under attack.
- The World Health Organization says nearly 700 attacks have been carried out on healthcare facilities since the war started.
- More than 90 percent of Gaza’s hospitals have been damaged or destroyed.
Israel systematically dismantling Gaza’s healthcare system: Aid group official
Israel has in effect dismantled Gaza’s healthcare system, according to Aseel Baidoun, deputy director of advocacy and campaigns at UK-based Medical Aid for Palestinians.
“Ninety percent of the 531 healthcare services points across Gaza have become completely nonfunctional, and we have more than 1,400 health workers killed,” she told Al Jazeera from Ramallah in the occupied West Bank.
“When I get in touch with doctors inside Gaza, they have no energy because they are starving and overwhelmed. Every hospital has been targeted in Gaza. Israel made sure that healthcare workers are detained or killed.”
Baidoun pointed to the bombing on Friday of the home of two Gaza doctors, which killed nine of their 10 children.
“These are not isolated incidents. They violate international humanitarian law, and they are a part of the systematic dismantling of Gaza’s healthcare system, which was fragile even before October 2023,” Baidoun said.
WHO warns most Gaza medical equipment stocks have run out
The UN’s health agancy has said that stocks of medical equipment in Gaza are running low and that nearly half of basic medicines such as painkillers are out of stock.
“We are at stock zero of close to 64 percent of medical equipment and stock zero of 42 percent of essential medicines and vaccines,” Hanan Balkhy, the World Health Organization’s regional director for the Eastern Mediterranean, told reporters in Geneva.
In remarks last week, Balkhy warned that health conditions in Gaza had reached “crisis levels” and that medical facilities were “barely functional”.
