One of Gaza's Last Functioning Hospitals Stretched to Limit By Latest Israeli Raid

The World Health Organization (WHO) visited al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital in Central Gaza on Sunday, which says it is desperately short of medicines, medical supplies and fuel - all while overrun with patients. Before the war, the hospital served an estimated 150 inpatient patients daily, WHO reported. Now it says it takes on around 700. “Yesterday, our Reception and Emergency Department received about 420 medical cases resulting from the camp’s attacks in the central region. Most of the cases had lost limbs, abdominal injuries, brain injuries, and burns," the hospital's emergency department supervisor Dr Akram Saeed Al-Najjar said. Patients filled the hospital corridors from beds to the floors. “Injured people, people on the ground and people who died right in front of our eyes. They spent almost half a day cleaning the hospital’s floor of the blood that was everywhere," said patient Najat Abdel Albari. "The situation here is complete disaster." Hospital spokesperson Dr Khalil Jalal said that they are also in need of equipment for intensive care departments and machines for dialysis patients with renal failure, which he said had more than quadrupled.