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| Death and Despair at Gaza Hospital as Fighting Reaches Its Doors | Death and Despair at Gaza Hospital as Fighting Reaches Its Doors |
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| With Israel’s ground war in the Gaza Strip in its third week, Israeli military vehicles on Monday arrived at the gates of a besieged hospital complex where fuel, medicine and food are running out. Inside the hospital, the nursing staff were moving 36 premature babies to the only department that still had oxygen. | With Israel’s ground war in the Gaza Strip in its third week, Israeli military vehicles on Monday arrived at the gates of a besieged hospital complex where fuel, medicine and food are running out. Inside the hospital, the nursing staff were moving 36 premature babies to the only department that still had oxygen. |
| “Their lives are in danger,” said Dr. Nasser Bolbol, the head of the neonatal intensive care unit at the hospital, Al-Shifa. Before the babies were moved, three others had died when the oxygen was cut in the neonatal ward, Dr. Bolbol said. | “Their lives are in danger,” said Dr. Nasser Bolbol, the head of the neonatal intensive care unit at the hospital, Al-Shifa. Before the babies were moved, three others had died when the oxygen was cut in the neonatal ward, Dr. Bolbol said. |
| As near-constant shelling shook the hospital buildings to their foundations, members of the medical staff painted a picture of the increasingly calamitous conditions inside Al-Shifa for the hundreds of patients and the estimated 8,000 people who have taken shelter there. | As near-constant shelling shook the hospital buildings to their foundations, members of the medical staff painted a picture of the increasingly calamitous conditions inside Al-Shifa for the hundreds of patients and the estimated 8,000 people who have taken shelter there. |
| On Monday, more than 100 bodies were decomposing in the hospital’s front yard, another 50 were inside and about 60 others were in the morgue, said a spokesman for the Gazan Health Ministry, Medhat Abbas. The U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights said on Monday that a power cut at the hospital had led to at least 12 deaths. | On Monday, more than 100 bodies were decomposing in the hospital’s front yard, another 50 were inside and about 60 others were in the morgue, said a spokesman for the Gazan Health Ministry, Medhat Abbas. The U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights said on Monday that a power cut at the hospital had led to at least 12 deaths. |