This health center, which has been without electricity, water and food for several days, is home to around nine thousand people, including displaced people, medical staff and patients, including more than 30 premature babies.
Meanwhile, the Palestinian government condemned this Wednesday the Israeli army’s attack on Al-Shifa Hospital and called for urgent international intervention to protect the people in its buildings.
The media today highlights that Al-Shifa Hospital has already become a symbol of the widespread suffering of Palestinian civilians during the Israeli invasion, which has been ongoing for almost six weeks.
Likewise, the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) said today that the situation in the Gaza Strip is dire and stressed that there is no safe place for children.
Unicef Executive Director Catherine Russell, who is touring the Strip, denounced what she saw and heard was devastating given the bombings and the forced relocation of Palestinian families.
Russell recalled that more than 4,600 children were killed and nearly 9,000 injured as a result of the Israeli attacks, while others are missing and are believed to lie under the rubble of buildings destroyed by the bombings.
Almost all of Gaza’s population has now sought refuge in two-thirds of the small southern enclave, where conditions have deteriorated due to ongoing bombing.
Today a truck carrying fuel finally entered Gaza through the Rafah crossing on the border with Egypt, the first since the start of the war.
So far, only limited humanitarian aid shipments have reached the Gaza Strip because Israel refused to allow fuel imports.
In this situation, the United Nations warned that it would be forced to suspend humanitarian operations, including the distribution of aid within the Gaza Strip, as its fuel reserves were completely exhausted.
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