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Doctors are struggling to help a growing number of patients, including children injured in airstrikes, in overwhelmed hospitals facing shortages of medicine and fuel. Doctors said that only the most serious cases end up with surgery due to the lack of sufficient resources.

Ministry of Health official Ashraf Al-Kandara wonders how hospitals that are already in a critical condition and constantly receive bodies and wounded will deal with it, while he issued a call for blood donations at Al-Shifa Hospital, the largest hospital in the country. The 13 medical infrastructures in the sector.

“If the hospital collapses, the whole world will be responsible for the lives of hundreds and thousands of patients who depend on our supplies, especially from Seva,” Kendra said. This hospital in particular serves the entire Gaza Strip, but more directly the approximately 800,000 people living in Gaza City.

At Nasser Hospital in Khan Yunis, south of the Gaza Strip, where ambulances continue to arrive to the injured, patients suffering from chronic diseases face the possibility that machines will stop working.

“We have 220 kidney patients. Half of the machines will be out of order tonight and we cannot provide dialysis for everyone,” Dr. Muhammad Zaqout said.

Kidney patient Nahed Al-Khuzdar, who had to flee with his family to Gaza City to Khan Yunis, said that he was undergoing dialysis three times a week, but he had not undergone anything yet. He told Reuters, “My legs started to swell and I felt suffocated and needed dialysis immediately.”