The Israeli occupation has not spared the conditions of the wounded, injured, children and

 infants in the Gaza Strip.as the war waged by Israel on the Gaza Strip entered its sixth week

 on Saturday, November 11, 2023, the violent Israeli shelling escalated and continued in the

 vicinity of Shifa Hospital west of Gaza City, the largest in the Strip, as the Israeli army

 tightens its siege on this medical complex, which is under intense bombardment amid a

 complete power outage.

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Edited by| Christian Megan

 

Humanity  section -  CJ journalist

Gaza conflict news section  

 

Gaza Strip  – November,11,2023

 

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The NGO "Doctors Without Borders" reported this morning that "over the past hours,

 attacks on the Shifa Hospital have intensified," noting a "catastrophic" situation inside the

 hospital.

The Israeli army, which has been advancing by land in the Gaza Strip for days, is besieging 4

 hospitals west of Gaza City. He called for the evacuation of all Gaza hospitals "in order to

 deal with Hamas," noting that several thousand people are still in the courtyard of the Shifa

 Medical Complex, and that they "must be evacuated".

The Israeli military said that at least 150 thousand people have left northern Gaza over the

 past three days.

The Palestinian news agency "WAFA" quoted medical sources as saying that an infant died

 due to exposure to cold in the nursery, while 4 patients died in the intensive care

 department, due to a power outage in the Shifa complex.

According to eyewitnesses, Israeli tanks with shells targeted a medical staff who was

 heading to check the dead and wounded inside the yards of the complex, and a group of

 displaced people who tried to leave it.

As for the ICRC, it is difficult to evacuate the Shifa medical complex because there are more

 than 60 patients in intensive care, more than 50 infants in the preterm and nursery

 departments, and more than 500 patients in the dialysis departments,"he said.

Meanwhile, on Friday, November 10, the Hamas government announced that at least 13

 people were killed and dozens injured in a bombing on the Shifa compound where civilians

 were taking refuge, as is the case in other hospitals in the area.

Maher Sharif, a nurse at the hospital who works with Doctors Without Borders, said it was a

 "terrifying scene" and that "I saw bodies, including women and children".

WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus warned that the health system in

 Gaza is "completely exhausted", reiterating his calls for a ceasefire.

"It is impossible to describe the situation on the ground: crowded hospital corridors with

 wounded, sick and dying people, overcrowded morgues, surgeries without anesthesia, tens

 of thousands of refugees,"Ghebreyesus added.

The International Red Cross said that the situation of the health system in the Gaza Strip has

 reached the point of "no return" due to the Israeli shelling and the siege on medical

 facilities that have become unable to care for the injured and sick.

The Palestinian Ministry of Health said that" what is happening now against hospitals is a

 decision to kill those in them, as the wounded are dying because of the running out of fuel

 and medical consumables, "calling on the world to stop the massacres against hospitals. The

 director of the Shifa hospital complex, Mohammed Abu Salmiya, said that Friday was"the

 day of targeting hospitals". "The occupation targeted all the hospitals,"he said, with the

 sounds of bullets heard nearby.

After being subjected to continuous shelling for more than a month and subjected to a

 complete blockade, the humanitarian situation in the Gaza Strip has become catastrophic,

 which has displaced 1.6 million of its 2.4 million inhabitants, according to the United

 Nations.