With only days or hours of fuel left, hospitals are on the verge of becoming “mass grave[s].”
Palestinians injured in Israeli air raids arrive at Nasser Medical Hospital on October 24, 2023, in Khan Yunis, in the southern Gaza Strip, Gaza.,” Palestinian health ministry officials have said, with over a third of hospitals shuttered and the rest rapidly running out of capacity and resources due to Israel’s blockade of electricity, water and humanitarian aid.
This means that countless Gazans’ “only lifeline” could soon be no longer operational, UNRWA officials said. The fuel blockade means that what little supplies could be transported to those in need would have no way of reaching them. Israeli strikes have killed 38 UNRWA staff members in Gaza since the war began, the agency reported.
One doctor said that the region’s largest hospital, Al-Shifa in Gaza City, “will just be a mass grave” if electricity runs out. Al-Shifa senior surgeon Marwan Abusada toldTruthout
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