The medical disaster in Gaza’s hospitals, or what stays of them, is catastrophic. Hospitals can barely deal with sufferers, and employees haven’t got the tools, drugs and even beds essential to handle Palestinians within the enclave, who’re struggling to outlive beneath relentless Israeli bombing.
The hospitals themselves have come beneath repeated assault, with a number of being partially or completely destroyed. A medical staff despatched to Gaza by three support teams described the scenario within the hospitals as having reached “unimaginable” ranges.
To grasp the dimensions of the bodily injury to the hospitals within the Gaza Strip, Al Jazeera’s Sanad verification company analysed satellite tv for pc photographs captured between October 22, 2023 and March 27, 2024.
Sanad discovered that 24 hospitals had been broken, together with:
- 6 hospitals in northern Gaza
- 10 hospitals in Gaza Metropolis
- 1 hospital in Deir el-Balah
- 7 hospitals in Khan Younis
The evaluation covers hospitals which have been destroyed or occupied by Israeli forces.
Maybe probably the most well-known is Gaza Metropolis’s al-Shifa Hospital.
In March, the Israeli military stormed al-Shifa utilizing tanks and heavy gunfire for 10 days, destroying many of the facility and killing dozens of individuals. Israeli forces have claimed that the hospital was a Hamas command and management centre, however little verifiable proof has been produced to again up that declare, and hundreds of Palestinians used what was as soon as Gaza’s preeminent medical centre as a shelter.
The hospital has been stormed 4 instances by Israeli forces since October 7, with medical employees and journalists amongst these arrested, and mass graves discovered on the grounds.