- Gaza Hospital Overwhelmed
- Injured and casualties
- Power outage threat
At present, Al Shifa, the principal healthcare facility in Gaza City, is functioning at its utmost capacity.
Hundreds of corpses are scattered throughout the corridors and courtyards because the morgue’s refrigerators cannot accommodate them all. Additional remains are outside.
Hundreds of seriously injured individuals fill the corridors as the staff works under immense strain, knowing that if the facility’s backup generators fail, they will have to halt all services. Among the injured, there are children and women.
This circumstance is capable of precipitating a catastrophe.
We encounter a young girl, rushed to the hospital, wailing in excruciating pain and astonishment. She pleads with the physicians to treat her and alleviate her suffering.
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An unexpected bombardment of her residence by Israeli forces resulted in the deaths of several of her relatives.
Doctors are rushing to treat the most seriously injured patients.
Time has run out for the survivors.
A woman is sitting next to the remains of several of her relatives, who perished in a fierce Israeli bombardment that targeted a densely populated Gaza district. Other surviving family members are also arriving.
“We were sleeping, and they bombarded our house like everyone else,” she says. “They attacked our residence while we slept.” There were no combatants present in our structure. The building is occupied by a civilian population of 120 individuals.
Another woman on a stretcher informs us, “They postponed my operation because they claimed other patients were more urgent… You can wait a moment. What should I do? There are so many injured people here.”
Dr. Muhammad Abu Salmia, the hospital’s director, warns of the consequences that would occur if al-Shifa were forced to cease operations: The hospital’s operations rely on the availability of electricity.
“More than 120 people are intubated in the ICU, neonatal, and other wards; [if this happens,] all departments and services across the hospital will collapse, and we will no longer be able to treat patients.”
According to hospital reports, dozens of our neighbors, family, and friends have died or sustained injuries.
We cannot continue working while we process the shock of the story’s proximity.
A cinematographer, Mahmoud al-Ajrami, collapses in tears after discovering that a close friend has been brought to the hospital with critical injuries and that most of his relatives have died.
The Palestinian Ministry of Health asserts that it is operating under tremendous duress, aware of the imminent danger that the power outage will render hospitals in Gaza inoperable.
