Israeli airstrikes in Gaza have killed more than a dozen people and destroyed the cardiology ward of the main hospital, Gaza officials say, as fighting continues in the besieged strip for the 37th consecutive day.
At least 13 people were killed in an Israeli airstrike on a house in Khan Younis, Gaza officials reported Sunday. Israeli forces also continued their siege around Gaza’s largest hospital, al-Shifa, where health officials said thousands of staff, patients and displaced people remained stranded without power and supplies. decreasing.
Gaza Health Ministry spokesperson Ashraf al-Qudra told Al Jazeera that al-Shifa Hospital was completely out of service and could not provide any treatment, even to patients inside. , due to constant Israeli attacks.
Israeli shelling targeted the neighborhood’s outer surroundings as well as anyone walking inside the courtyard and between its various buildings, as well as those wishing to reach the compound’s gate.
“We have deaths in the nursery after life support machines stopped working inside the section which includes 37 other children who could be on the verge of death,” al-Qudra said.
He added that there were five deaths among the injured as medical teams were unable to carry out surgeries on them due to the power outage and lack of fuel.
More than 11,000 Palestinians, two-thirds of them women and children, have been killed since the start of the war, according to Gaza’s health ministry. Around 2,700 people were missing and believed to be trapped or dead under the rubble.