Hospitals struggle to treat patients with heavy bleeding after drone attacks
We are at the point where we can’t really keep up with the drone strikes. In the span of just 30 minutes, three drone strikes targeted people across Gaza City, as well as tents in central Gaza.
Civilians in the eastern part of Gaza City – particularly near the Shujayea neighbourhood – also reported quadcopters chasing them as they headed to the west.
The attacks have caused numerous civilian casualties. The drone missiles [people were targeted with] are quite fatal. When they explode, shrapnel and pieces of metal packed inside fly out at a high speed, piercing through bodies and causing severe bleeding.
Due to the huge influx of injured people [suffering from such bleeding] and a shortage of medical supplies, staff at al-Shifa Hospital and Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital have been unable to intervene properly.
Israel destroyed 60 percent of equipment in Gaza’s blood banks, labs: Ministry
Gaza’s Health Ministry says most equipment in hospital labs and blood banks has been destroyed, with the remainder poorly maintained and lacking spare parts.
“Sixty percent of the equipment has been destroyed, deliberately damaged” by Israeli forces, said the ministry, warning that labs urgently need supplies to test and treat the wounded.
12-year-old boy among two killed near Khan Younis: Report
An Israeli aerial attack has killed two people and injured others to the west of Khan Younis, reports the Wafa news agency. One of those killed is a 12-year-old boy, it said.
Attack victims were rushed to the Kuwaiti Field Hospital in Khan Younis for treatment, said the agency. It comes after two other children were killed earlier by an Israeli drone attack in southwestern Gaza City.
Residents escape with their belongings from the al-Amal neighbourhood in Khan Younis
More than 90% aid stocks nearly exhausted in Gaza
A survey of 46 Palestinian and international aid groups working in Gaza has found 93 percent reported their existing aid stocks are totally or nearly exhausted because of Israel’s devastating restrictions on humanitarian assistance.
About two-thirds also reported being unable to deliver services to communities in some parts of the Strip, and one-third said staff members had been wounded or killed in Israeli attacks.
“The government of Israel’s systemic obstruction of aid and the deterioration of the operating environment have severely affected the provision of assistance to communities in need,” a snapshot of the survey results said.
