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Gaza's main hospital uncontactable as second hospital says it is out of fuel

 With updates from Rushdi Abualouf in Gaza; Paul Adams, Yolande Knell, Yogita Limaye, Nick Beake and Joel Gunter in Jerusalem; Jeremy Bowen and Mark Lowen in southern Israel; and Hugo Bachega and Orla Guerin in Lebanon





Summary

The World Health Organization (WHO) says it has lost communication with its contacts at Gaza's main hospital, Al-Shifa

The WHO says it has "grave concerns" for the safety of staff and patients there who have become trapped by fighting around the hospital

The BBC has been sent pictures of at least 20 newborn babies being kept in a surgical theatre at the site

The Israeli military says it has agreed to help evacuate babies from the hospital to a "safer" facility but denies Al-Shifa has lost power

Israel's president Isaac Herzog says Hamas has its base underneath the building - something Hamas denies. The Israeli military says it is not hitting the hospital during fighting

Gaza's second biggest hospital, Al-Quds, is also reported by a charity to have run out of fuel

Israel began striking Gaza after the Hamas attacks on 7 October, which saw 1,200 people killed and more than 200 taken hostage

The Hamas-run health ministry says more than 11,000 people have been killed in Gaza since - of whom more than 4,500 were children





Doctor in Gaza hospital: 'Today, I couldn't bear it'

A doctor at the Al-Ahli hospital in Gaza City has described the numbers of patients arriving there as "overwhelming".


Dr Fadel Naim, an orthopaedic surgeon, has been posting regular updates on social media about the situation in the facility. Today, he posted: "We don't have a blood bank at Al-Ahli Hospital, and now our blood supply has run out."


Dr Naim added that doctors were having to perform surgeries without replacing blood lost through bleeding.


He called Al-Ahli the last functional hospital in Gaza. Al-Shifa and Al-Quds, the two biggest hospitals in Gaza, have reportedly run out of fuel (although Israel has denied that Al-Shifa is without power).


Dr Naim also said he was struggling emotionally, saying: "I am trying to hold myself together despite the difficulty of the cases I witness."


The doctor continued, "But today, I couldn't bear it and I cried from the bottom of my heart."


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