Gaza’s biggest hospital is also struggling to keep patients alive

These days the Israeli army is running its ground operation in Gaza Strip to eliminate Hamas. But due to this operation, the condition of the hospitals in Gaza Strip has become very bad. In many hospitals there is even a shortage of medicines necessary to save the patients.

The Israeli army is continuously attacking in the Gaza Strip. The targets of the Israeli army are those positions of Hamas from where they are hiding and launching intermittent counterattacks on Israel. But amidst all this, the condition of hospitals in Gaza Strip has become very pathetic. There are many hospitals where there is a shortage of medicines necessary to keep the patients alive. Israel has strongly denied reports that they fired on the Gaza Strip’s largest hospital, but said its troops were fighting Hamas operatives near al-Shifa.

“During the past hours, false information has been spread that we are surrounding and attacking al-Shifa hospital,” military spokesman Daniel Hagari said in a televised briefing. These are false reports. The statement came hours after Palestinian officials said two newborns had died in a hospital and dozens of others were at risk in incubators due to lack of electricity. The Israeli army has been carrying out heavy firing and bombing in the Gaza Strip for the past several days to eliminate Hamas.

Aid agencies and hospital staff have said the situation is already “catastrophic” as there are severe shortages of medicines and fuel. Doctors for Human Rights Israel quoted doctors from al-Shifa as saying that the hospital was surrounded, and there was no way to get the bodies and injured people scattered outside.

Describing the current situation, a person at the hospital told AFP that the firing is never stopping. Air strikes are also being carried out unabated and cannon shells are also being fired. There are dozens of dead bodies around the complex which no one can reach.
Israel said rockets were still being fired from Gaza into southern Israel, where it said about 1,200 people were killed and more than 200 taken hostage by Hamas last month. Palestinian officials said Friday that 11,078 Gaza residents have been killed in air and rocket attacks since October 7, about 40 percent of them children.

Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu told Fox News that his country has no plans to recapture Gaza. He said that we do not want to rule Gaza. We do not want to capture it, but we want to give it and us a better future.

The conflict has escalated regional tensions, leading to intensified mutual attacks between Israeli forces and Lebanon’s Hezbollah movement. The meeting of Saudi Arabia, Muslim and Arab countries rejected the justification of Israel’s self-defense and called for an immediate stop to the military operation in Gaza.

The war has also sparked protests around the world. At least 300,000 Palestinian supporters on Saturday. Protesters marched in London and police arrested more than 120 people as they tried to stop far-right counter-protesters from ambushing the rally.