On November 13, 2023, a Palestinian was killed by an Israeli airstrike in Khan Younis, in the southern Gaza Strip, Palestinian territory. A mother, a relative of Baraka and Abu Reda, weeps beside the body of her victimized child in a hospital in Khan Younis.
At al-Ahli Hospital, the largest hospital in the Gaza Strip, completely surrounded by Israeli forces on the 38th day of the Israeli invasion of Gaza, patients cried out for help from medical personnel as they ran out of food, water and fuel. Al-Shifa Hospital ran out of fuel in the hospital on November 13, putting premature babies in imminent danger of death. Five premature babies have already died in the past few days.
Al-Shifa Hospital, the largest medical facility in the Gaza Strip, was declared closed on November 11 after Israeli forces intensified their shelling of the area and ground forces continued the siege since November 10; on November 13, stray dogs ate dead civilians in the hospital yard; since November 10, Israeli snipers and tanks have been firing at the hospital compound at close range, Since November 10, Israeli snipers and tanks have been firing at close range from the hospital facility, and no one is allowed in or out of the hospital. The hospital facility has no water or electricity, and has run out of food and fuel. There is only one outlet for anesthesia equipment and nothing but life-saving treatment. Incubators for premature infants require large amounts of electricity. Premature infants are immunocompromised and require complete isolation to prevent infection. Because of the power outage, premature infants were also moved to regular beds. There is no place to move or bury the bodies. The corpses are a source of infections, epidemics, and other diseases; eight Palestinian patients have died since the morning of November 13. Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) also reported on November 10 that the situation in the closed Gaza Strip is very bad and inhuman. There are about 600 inpatients and 37 infants in the Al-Shifa Hospital facility, and the doctors are not evacuating the abandoned. The hospital has no electricity, no water, no food, and if the ventilators do not work, the patients will die within hours.
Israeli forces also attacked ambulances transporting patients to the hospital. There are many dead bodies in front of the hospital as well as wounded, but they cannot be brought inside the hospital. Several people leaving al-Shifa Hospital were killed, bombed, and killed by snipers. Assurances are given to wounded patients and medical teams inside Al-Shifa Hospital that if they evacuate the patients first, the medical personnel will also be evacuated. al-Quads Hospital became the only hospital that still provided medical services in the besieged area. Israeli shelling of Gaza over the past 38 days has killed 11,240 Palestinians, including 4,630 children and 3,130 women, Gaza authorities announced.
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