We caution against strong impressions in the case. This week, a dozen UN leaders went out and asked for a humanitarian ceasefire. More than 10,000 Palestinians have been killed. Among them are 192 health workers, claims the spokesperson for the Hamas-run Ministry of Health, doctor Ashraf al-Qudra. According to al-Qudra, the healthcare system in Gaza operates at less than a third of its normal capacity, and that the healthcare personnel are under direct attack. – The whole system has completely collapsed, he tells news from inside the al-Shifa hospital. The interview took place on Wednesday morning. All the beds at al-Shifa hospital are full, says al-Qudra. This means that patients must lie on the floor, and the doctors must prioritize who should get help. Photo: DAWOOD NEMER / AFP – We are now entering some critical hours. We will not be able to provide medical help to those who need it, says al-Qudra. A few hours later, the Palestinian Red Crescent reports that the Al-Quds hospital is out of fuel. As a result, this hospital is also unable to provide most of the services they provide. news has been in contact with the IDF in connection with the case. They still haven’t answered our questions. Refugees have gathered outside the Shifa hospital in Gaza City Photo: Reuters Thousands of refugees Al-Shifa, which is the largest medical complex in all of Gaza, is home to many tens of thousands of refugees. – There is not a single centimeter here that is not without people, says al-Qudra further, and adds that this has led to diseases spreading between people in the hospital. – It is because many injured people have open wounds. In addition, many have third and fourth degree burns. An injured girl and an injured man are waiting for medical help inside the Shifa hospital in Gaza City. Photo: BASHAR TALEB / AFP The Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) claimed yesterday that they have soldiers inside Gaza City. Al-Qudra thinks they are about a kilometer away from the hospital. – We fear that they will come in. It is clear that we who are here are the health team and the injured. These hospitals are here to provide health services. – But the IDF is to blame for using a hospital as a military base? – There is no “unusual” movement here at the hospital. The Israeli surveillance planes cover the Gaza Strip and Al Shifa hospital hour by hour. – If there was proof of what they claim, they would show it to the world. This ambulance was attacked by an Israeli air strike, right outside the Shifa hospital in Gaza. Several people were seriously injured. Photo: STRINGER / Reuters Erik Fosse: – Hospital on the scale of Ullevål Doctor Erik Fosse has himself been to al-Shifa hospital several times, and confirms his contacts there are experiencing a critical situation. – Now they hardly have any fuel left, they have prioritized only a few departments that are still in operation. A few days ago, compared to twice as many patients, the wards had more beds. It has now increased further. Erik Fosse is a doctor and professor of medicine at Oslo University Hospital. He is a specialist in general surgery and thoracic surgery. Fosse is and is the leader of NORWAC, an organization for emergency aid and health care in, among other places, Palestine and Lebanon. Photo: Frode Fjerdingstad / news Fosse says that many injured people who would otherwise have survived are now in practice sentenced to death. – It is a relative measure of whether people are injured or die. Those who would normally be prioritized for immediate treatment are sorted into the hopeless group, who then die. The doctor calls Israel’s statement about evacuation “a hoax”. – Shifa is a hospital on the same scale as Ullevål. What Israel is asking is that Ullevål hospital should be evacuated during the day and rushed to Fredrikstad, but unfortunately all the hospitals there are full. It is completely impossible. Fosse believes Israel targeted the hospitals. – They say that Hamas has headquarters everywhere, because they have bombed all the hospitals in the north with the same rationale. This is something they always say, and we have never seen any soldiers or concrete evidence. I suspect that this is an effort to destroy the infrastructure. They make northern Gaza uninhabitable. The IDF and the Israeli government have previously stated that they only wage war with Hamas, and do not wish to harm civilians. On Monday, they presented a photo of a hole in the ground outside the Sheikh Hamad hospital in the Jabalia camp as evidence that they hit a military target. A premature baby receives medical treatment in an incubator at the al-Shifa hospital in Gaza. Photo: STRINGER / Reuters Babies died from lack of oxygen Since the outbreak of war on 7 October, 5,500 babies have been born in the Gaza Strip, says Natalia Kanem of the UN’s population fund. She says the UN has no figures on new mothers or new-born babies who have died since the war began, but that it is urgent to get fuel to the hospitals in Gaza. This is so that they have enough power for the incubators. Kanem says newborn babies have died as a result of not having enough oxygen or incubators available. She emphasizes that pregnant women need twice as much liquid as other women. If you are breastfeeding, you need three times as much. Satellite image of the Shifa hospital in Gaza City from 19 October 2023. Photo: MAXAR TECHNOLOGIES / Reuters
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