While speaking to Al Jazeera, the Director of Al Shifa Hospital Muhammad Abu Salmiya described the catastrophic situation at the medical facility which has been hit with Israeli strikes multiple times.
Abu Salmiya said: “All I can say is that we’ve started to lose lives. Patients are dying by the minute, victims and wounded are also dying — even babies in the incubators. We lost a baby in the incubator, we also lost a young man in the intensive care unit.
“The hospital compound is cordoned off and the buildings of the hospital are targeted. Any moving person within the compound is targeted. The Israeli occupation forces are outside, preventing any person to move.”
He added: “One member of a medical crew who tried to reach the incubator to lend a helping hand to the babies born inside was shot and killed.
“In addition to that, some of the victims who were already injured suffered bone injuries as a result of sniper gunfire.
“The hospital is left without power, internet and even without water and medical supplies. We are totally cut off from the whole world, we are minutes away from imminent death. We are stranded, we sent many SOS to the whole world — there has been no response, no response.”
