‘Mission impossible’ to treat the wounded now: Gaza doctors

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Israeli forces in the past few hours have targeted a school housing displaced Palestinians in northern Gaza’s Jabalia with at least two people killed and dozens injured.

Gaza’s north has been under siege for 80 days now, Hind Khoudary of Al Jazeera reports from Deir el-Balah, central Gaza.

“In the south, Nasser Hospital in Khan Younis announced it would shut down operations at 5pm (14:00 GMT) because it’s run out of fuel. A woman suffering from kidney disease just died because the electricity cut out when she was on the dialysis machine,” the reporter said.

“A convoy carrying fuel entered the Gaza Strip in the past few days, but six out of the eight trucks were looted by gangs that are now increasing the chaos of the war here — the situation is collapsing in all aspects of life,” she added.

She said that the Al-Aqsa Hospital in central Deir el-Balah serves about one million Palestinians, adding, “It is now out of basic supplies and medicine. Surgeries are being done without anaesthesia. Doctors here tell us it’s ‘mission impossible’. It’s a lack of everything in the Gaza Strip.”

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