Fighting between Israeli forces and Palestinian militants outside Gaza's largest hospital has prompted thousands of people to flee from the sprawling medical facility, but hundreds of patients and others displaced by the war remained inside, health officials said on Monday (November 13).World Health Organisation (WHO) Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said a day earlier that the UN agency was in contact with Al-Shifa hospital, which he said had been without electricity and water for three days, and noted that gunfire and bombings outside the compound “have exacerbated the already critical circumstances." Patients inside the hospital include dozens of babies at risk of dying because of a lack of electricity, health officials at the facility said. More than two-thirds of Gaza's population of 2.3 million have fled their homes since the war began. Gaza City, the largest urban area in the territory, is the focus of Israel's campaign to crush Hamas following the militant group's deadly October 7 incursion into southern Israel that set off the war. More than 11,000 Palestinians, two-thirds of them women and minors, have been killed since the war began, according to the Health Ministry in Gaza. About 2,700 people have been reported missing. More than 1,200 people have been killed in Israel, most of them in the Hamas attack, and about 240 hostages were taken from Israel into Gaza by Palestinian militants.Follow this space for more updates:
Fighting between Israeli forces and Palestinian militants outside Gaza's largest hospital has prompted thousands of people to flee from the sprawling medical facility, but hundreds of patients and others displaced by the war remained inside, health officials said on Monday (November 13).World Health Organisation (WHO) Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said a day earlier that the UN agency was in contact with Al-Shifa hospital, which he said had been without electricity and water for three days, and noted that gunfire and bombings outside the compound “have exacerbated the already critical circumstances." Patients inside the hospital include dozens of babies at risk of dying because of a lack of electricity, health officials at the facility said. More than two-thirds of Gaza's population of 2.3 million have fled their homes since the war began. Gaza City, the largest urban area in the territory, is the focus of Israel's campaign to crush Hamas following the militant group's deadly October 7 incursion into southern Israel that set off the war. More than 11,000 Palestinians, two-thirds of them women and minors, have been killed since the war began, according to the Health Ministry in Gaza. About 2,700 people have been reported missing. More than 1,200 people have been killed in Israel, most of them in the Hamas attack, and about 240 hostages were taken from Israel into Gaza by Palestinian militants.Follow this space for more updates: