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Hospitals in Gaza are ‘running out of medicine and generator fuel’ as doctors prepare to turn wounded patients away.
More than 700 people have been killed and 4,000 injured after Israel launched launched a barrage of missile strikes in response to Hamas’ unprecedent attack.
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Israel has also suspended supplies of food, water and fuel to Palestinians, leaving the country to be left without mains electricity.
Doctors have revealed they will have to start turning away wounded patients as the ‘quantity of wounded people arriving is huge’.
Dr. Ashraf Al- Qidra, said: ‘We are talking about full beds in hospitals across Gaza, adding to this that the medication and supplies are about to run out. Also the fuel and the generator are close to running out.
‘There will be a real issue impending – as the electricity company alerted us that they will completely stop work – which will be reflected on all those wounded by the Israeli aggression, and the sick people of Gaza.
‘For sure the quantity of the wounded people arriving to our hospitals are huge and will mean we will not be able to accept more patients in Gaza.
Palestinian children injured in Israeli strikes are brought to a hospital, in Gaza City (Picture: Majdi Fathi/NurPhoto/Shutterstock)
Hospitals are starting to run out of medicine and fuel(Picture: Majdi Fathi/NurPhoto/Shutterstock)
‘We need a safe passage to receive medical supplies to Gaza. And to be able to take the wounded people from Gaza elsewhere to get them hospitalised.
‘The coming hours are very sensitive and may be very shocking to all the health sector and for all people.’
At least 140 Palestinian children have been killed since Saturday, human rights group Defence for Children International Palestine has confirmed.
The war, which has claimed at least 2,100 lives on both sides, is only expected to escalate as Israel remains determined to crush the militant group.
At least 140 Palestinian children have been killed since Saturday(Picture: Majdi Fathi/NurPhoto/Shutterstock)
Israel has also suspended supplies of food, water and fuel to Palestinians(Picture: Majdi Fathi/NurPhoto/Shutterstock)
In Israel, at least 1,200 have been killed, while officials in Gaza say 900 people have been killed.
Yoav Gallant, the Israeli defense minister, said ‘all restraints on fighters have been released’ and promised an intensification of fighting.
‘Hamas wanted a change and it will get one. What was in Gaza will no longer be,’ he said.
‘We started the offensive from the air, later on we will also come from the ground. We’ve been controlling the area since Day Two and we are on the offensive. It will only intensify.
‘Whoever comes to decapitate, murder women, Holocaust survivors — we will eliminate him at the height of our power and without compromise.’
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