The Gaza Strip's main hospital warned yesterday that dozens of patients may die because it has lost its electricity and faces the prospect of running out of fuel for back-up generators within three days.
"Our situation is very desperate," Hassan Khalaf, the director of Shifa Hospital, said yesterday.
Shifa, in Gaza City, has not had electricity since Friday after Israel's bombardment damaged most of the city's power lines. By the end of this week, it expects to be out of fuel for the generators providing power for the machines keeping some 70 intensive care patients alive. Its operating rooms may also be shut as a result.
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Transferring the injured to hospitals has also become a challenge. Ambulances need to co-ordinate their movement with the Israeli army in order to avoid being hit, but aid groups say the military has been slow in granting passage. Activists claim that a house belonging to a 28-member family living just outside Gaza City was bombarded on Saturday, during Israel's ground invasion into Gaza, and no ambulance has so far been allowed to fetch the six wounded to Shifa.
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