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As concerns grow for patients stranded inside Gaza's biggest hospital, experts warned that transporting vulnerable people, including babies, is a perilous proposition under even the best circumstances.
Doctors in Gaza say children are being treated in hospitals without proper anaesthesia, amid a critical lack of medical supplies, basic food and other necessities in the besieged enclave.
More than $20,000 raised in days for stabbed doctor.
Israel's Severe Airstrikes, Siege Wreck Gaza Health Care as COVID Third Wave Looms On 5/21/21 at 9:30 AM EDT Gaza's threadbare health care system was already withering under the pressures of the coronavirus pandemic, treating long-term injuries from past Israeli military action, and a siege that limited medical supplies before the latest bombardment. Now, after the most recent airstrikes in this new round of fighting between the Israeli government and the Hamas militant group that controls the Palestinian Gaza Strip, a third wave of COVID-19 is creeping up on its overwhelmed, exhausted medica...
‘Massive destruction’: Gaza’s hospitals under strain after Israeli strikes Hazem Balousha in Gaza City and Peter Beaumont © Provided by The Guardian Photograph: Mohammed Abed/AFP/Getty Images In her bed in Gaza City’s Shifa hospital, 25-year-old Aya Aloul recalls the moment her 66-year-old father, Moeen, one of Gaza’s few neurologists, was killed in an Israeli strike, one of two key Palestinian medical staff killed within hours on Sunday. Covered in wounds and bruises caused by shrapnel and falling masonry, she described the bombing of the family’s home in the R...