Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital in central Gaza announced late Wednesday in a statement that one of the hospital’s electricity generators has malfunctioned due to the fuel depletion and electricity shortage resulted from Israel’s closure of Rafah crossing.
The hospital warned that the malfunction of generators poses a humanitarian disaster that could claim the lives of dozens of wounded, patients, and critically ill children in the intensive care units and those relying on respiratory machines powered by electricity.
Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital currently houses over 700 wounded and patients, serving more than a million people and displaced individuals in the central governorate.
This hospital has been relying on only two generators for 244 days without stopp. This rendered one of the generators out of service. The other needs regular maintenance and alternatives to ensure its continuing. The Israeli occupation is preventing the provision of spare parts for these generators, including filters.
The hospital issued a plea to the international community, UN, and international organizations, all Arab and Islamic countries to save the lives of Gaza’s patients, wounded, and children from imminent death by urgently restoring electricity to the hospital before it’s too late.
It also called on the World Health Organization and all international organizations to examine the dangerous conditions the Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital is undergoing in light of being the only hospital remaining in service.
“We condemn the attempts of the Israeli occupation to subjugate the hospital and render it out of service which constitutes a crime against humanity and against international law, underlying within the framework of the crime of genocide Israel has been committing against civilians, children and women,” the statement reads.
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