Shifa Hospital once was a cornerstone of the Health System in Gaza Tip. Now, after 21 months of war and two main Israel Raids, barely works.
His corridors were filled with people wounded in Israel’s attracts, his dead bodies. Doctors and nurses perform operations in strong conditions, often light mobile phones. Patients Waiting for the treatment dialysis sitting next to the ruins of the bombarded hospital wing.
Israel made two main raids on Shifa and attacked several other medical institutions, accusing Hamas Militants shelters in them. Medical staff denies allegations, but men Hamas security can often be seen in such facilities and put parts from borders to the public.
Hospitals They can lose protected status according to international law if used for military purposes.
Israel says that it makes all efforts to avoid harming civilians, including evacuation of such facilities and providing them to them. But the funds say the raids are recklessly endangered by patients and destroyed the health care system as victims of installation from the permanent war.
Israel first flooded Shifa in November 2023, weeks after Hamas’ Attack 7. The attack started war. The military said that the hospital served as the Chief Hamas command and control center, but provided small evidence outside one tunnel leading to ground floor rooms near the facility.
Israeli forces returned to Shif in March 2024. year, the inflammation of the difficult fights in which the military said that he killed about 200 militants who regrouped there. The emergency department was destroyed in the hospital and surgical facility.
Today the former storage rooms now the house of patients. Medical materials are scarce due to Israel’s blockade and disintegration of laws and orders in the territory, which has made it difficult to provide assistance to assist in stock delivery. Power disorders are routine due to lack of fuel.
A large part of the staff are volunteers who work long hours without salary. Some rooms are so crowded that patients lie on the floor. Flies are blood in the whole facility, partly due to lack of disinfectants.
This is a documentary photo of the story settled by the AP photo editors.
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