Palestine: Hospitals are working now as shelters for displaced citizens in the Gaza Strip
Hospitals in the Gaza Strip, already suffering from shortages of fuel, electricity, water and medicine, have now become shelters for citizens displaced by shelling and fighting between Israeli and Hamas forces. teleSUR
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00:00 The situation in Gaza continues to worsen as Israel intensifies its attacks and siege
00:04 against the Palestinian people.
00:06 Hospitals are especially hard hit in the midst of this critical situation as the lack of
00:10 supplies and fuel is wreaking havoc on the health care system.
00:14 Our correspondent Noor Harassin has the details.
00:17 We are right now inside the Shuhada al-Aqsa Hospital located in Deir el-Balah.
00:22 And this hospital is no more a place where you visit to get medical treatment.
00:27 Now this hospital is housing thousands of Palestinians, especially that in the past
00:32 three days more Palestinians started fleeing their homes in northern Gaza to southern Gaza.
00:38 However, let's talk about the situation inside the al-Shifa Hospital.
00:43 The al-Shifa Hospital is now besieged with more than 30,000 people imprisoned inside
00:49 the al-Shifa Hospital.
00:50 According to Palestinian medical sources and doctors inside the al-Shifa Hospital, one
00:55 baby died this morning because of the lack of fuel.
00:59 He was inside the premature baby's unit.
01:03 Four more people were also died because of the lack of fuel.
01:08 They were inside the intensive care unit.
01:11 So this is how the situation now in al-Shifa Hospital.
01:15 If people do not get killed by the Israeli strikes, they will die out from the lack of
01:21 medicine, medical supplies, fuel and also food and water.
01:25 According to doctors also in the hospitals, they said that there is bodies on the front
01:29 gate of the al-Shifa Hospital.
01:31 No paramedic, no doctor can even go and evacuate them.
01:35 Nurhar Rezin, Tele-Sour, Gaza.
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