Headline17. Nov 2023
The relentless Israeli bombardment of the Gaza Strip is now in its seventh week, with new attacks on residential buildings in the Jabalia refugee camp, killing at least 18 people. On Thursday, Gaza’s main telecommunications companies suspended operations as they ran out of fuel for generators, leaving much of the occupied territory cut off. For the third day in a row, Israeli soldiers occupied Al-Shifa Hospital, where the 7,000 trapped medical workers and patients face a growing humanitarian crisis. A member of Al-Shifa’s medical staff said that 43 of the 63 intensive care patients who were on ventilators had died because oxygen and fuel supplies were running out, and that a “large number” of premature babies also died due to the siege be. Israeli to the hospital. Israeli and Egyptian authorities on Thursday allowed several wounded Palestinians to enter Egypt through the Rafah border crossing to receive treatment. These were the words of Ahmed Mazen Abu Shahma, a young Palestinian whose leg was amputated after surviving an Israeli bombing of his family’s home.
Ahmed Mazen Abu Shahma: “People are being torn to pieces, they have a head on one side and a leg on the other.” An entire block of buildings was destroyed by the bombing. Doesn’t the Israeli pilot of the plane know that people live in these buildings? They want to take action against Hamas. What do these people have to do with it? Why are they bombing innocent children who have nothing to do with this? “Doesn’t the pilot know they’re children?”
The Indonesian hospital in northern Gaza reported that it had to suspend its services and leave dozens of patients in need of urgent surgery in a reception area without treatment. This came after Israel bombed the Jordanian field hospital in Gaza, an attack the Jordanian government described as a war crime. The United Nations Palestine Refugee Agency said it may soon have to halt all humanitarian operations in the Palestinian enclave due to fuel shortages. The agency’s commissioner general said Thursday: “I believe there is a deliberate attempt to stall our operations.”