Overwhelmed doctors are struggling to care for patients and fear they will die once generators run out of fuel.
Water has run out at U.N. shelters across Gaza as thousands packed into the courtyard of the besieged territory's largest hospital as a refuge of last resort from a looming Israeli ground offensive and overwhelmed doctors struggled to care for patients they fear will die once generators run out of fuel.
Palestinians fleeing Israeli attacks take shelter at UNRWA school in Khan Yunis, Gaza on October 14, 2023. The United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees called on Israel to protect all civilians seeking refuge in itsDoctors in the evacuation zone said they couldn't relocate their patients safely, so they decided to stay as well to care for them.
If they left, the seven newborns in the intensive care unit would die, he said. And even if they could move them, there is nowhere for them to go in the 40-kilometer-long coastal territory. "Hospitals are full," Abu Safiya said. The wounded stream in every day with severed limbs and life-threatening injuries, he said.Other doctors feared for the lives of patients dependent on ventilators and those suffering from complex blast wounds needing around-the-clock care.
Palestinians fleeing Israeli attacks take shelter at UNRWA school in Khan Yunis, Gaza on October 14, 2023. The United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees called on Israel to protect all civilians seeking refuge in itsTouma said a quarter of a million people in Gaza moved to shelters over the past 24 hours, the majority of which are U.N. schools where "clean water has actually run out," said Inas Hamdan, another UNRWA spokeswoman.
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