Trapped inside Gaza City’s last hospitals as the ICU shuts down and medicines run out
Orheen Al-Dayah had her wounds stitched without anaesthetic at al-Shifa hospital
DOAA ROUQA
From al-Shifa Hospital in Gaza City, Dr Mohammad Hawajreh can hear shooting and the crash of artillery as Israeli forces draw closer. Patients lie on the floor: there is nowhere to treat them and nothing to give them. There is no electricity. Nothing is safe here.
The largest hospital in Gaza City has collapsed. Patients in the intensive care unit are being kept alive manually — some have already died. Staff had been rationing fuel to keep the generators going, but now that has gone. The 3,000 patients and displaced people sheltering there, as well as the 50 medical staff, many of them volunteers, are trapped. Yesterday morning there was a direct hit on the fourth floor, witnesses said. Outside the walls, Israeli troops and
