The only cancer hospital in the Gaza Strip was out of service due to a lack of fuel, health authorities said on Wednesday.
The director of the Turkish-Palestinian Friendship Hospital said in a news conference broadcast by Al-Jazeera television that the hospital, which mainly treats cancer patients, had run out of fuel and was now out of service.
“We tell the world not to leave cancer patients to certain death because the hospital is out of service,” added director Subhi Skaik.
Palestinian Health Minister Mai al-Kaila confirmed the director’s remarks in a statement, adding that this brings the total number of currently non-functioning hospitals in the Gaza Strip to 16 out of a total of 35.
“The lives of 70 cancer patients inside the hospital are seriously threatened,” he said in a statement.
“The number of cancer patients in the Gaza Strip is around 2,000, and they live in catastrophic health conditions due to continued Israeli aggression in the Strip and the displacement of a large number of them,” al-Kaila added.
After fighters from the Palestinian group Hamas attacked southern Israel on October 7, killing 1,400 people, Israel responded with a total blockade of Gaza, heavy bombing and a ground operation.
Israel has promised to exterminate Hamas. But desperate humanitarian conditions are causing great concern around the world, as food, fuel, clean water and medicine are lacking and hospitals struggle to treat victims.
The death toll in Gaza reached 8,796 Palestinians on Wednesday, including 3,648 children, according to the Health Ministry in the Hamas-controlled enclave.
Source: Terra
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