A Gaza hospital’s portable generator is about to run out of fuel as it is overwhelmed by patients piling up.
The Al-Shifa hospital has been crowded with men, women, and children of different ages since the terrorist organization Hamas attacked Israel and invaded towns along the Gaza border, killing at least 700 people.
“The situation in hospitals is miserable… [it] makes you weep,” 50-year-old Rajaa Musleh told CNN.
“There is no equipment, people are piled up on top of one another,” said Musleh, who is also Gaza’s country representative for the MedGlobal healthcare charity.
This comes after a rocket attack in the Gaza Strip killed 500 people. Hamas, however, said that the airstrike was ordered by Israel. But both the White House and the Israeli government have determined that the explosion was caused by a misfired Islamic Jihad rocket from Palestine.
The Palestinian Ministry of Health in Ramallah warned on Wednesday that the medical complex would be out of service in less than 24 hours due to a shortage of fuel for the generators.
“You couldn’t, as a human being and a medical officer, bear this situation,” Shitali said, standing in the emergency department, surrounded by bloodied patients.
According to Dr. Tanya Haj-Hassan, a pediatric intensive care physician and humanitarian with the aid organization Doctors Without Borders, also known as Médecins Sans Frontières, medical professionals at Al-Shifa are also seeing children with burns covering most of their bodies and faces, missing limbs, and other “catastrophic injuries.”
“And the doctors are left to treat them with limited pain control, (as they are) running out of anesthetic drugs.” Haj-Hassan told the news network. “We do not have enough antibiotics to treat wound infections, we don’t have enough dressings.”
Hamas’ attack has since prompted Israel to declare war against the terrorist group with a ruthless aerial campaign that has flattened homes, schools, medical institutions, and government buildings in Gaza.
President Joe Biden, meanwhile, has pledged $100 million in humanitarian aid to Palestine, but foreign experts feel that it could “fall into the hands of foreign terrorist organizations (FTOs) including, but not limited to, Hamas.”
