Palestinian officials said that after the Israeli attack on the Al-Shifa hospital in the Gaza Strip, Hamas stopped the negotiations for the release of the Israeli hostages, reports Reuters.
Indirect negotiations on the release of the hostages are being held in Qatar between representatives of Israel and Hamas.
The main hospitals in northern Gaza remained cut off by the Israeli attack on Hamas. A Palestinian official said three premature babies had died and dozens more were at risk due to the lack of electricity.
More and more people are killed and wounded in the Israeli bombardment every day, but there is less and less room for the injured.
Speaking from Al Shifa, Gaza Health Ministry spokesman Ashraf Al-Qidra said Israeli fire was “terrorizing both medical officials and civilians”.
The World Health Organization managed to get in contact with health workers at the Al-Shifa Hospital in the Gaza Strip, and that institution is no longer functioning as a hospital, the director of the UN agency, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, announced on Sunday evening.
He said in a post on the “X” network that the “situation is dire and dangerous” and that “the constant shooting and shelling in the area has worsened the already critical circumstances.”
“Three days have passed without electricity, without water and with very poor internet, which has seriously affected our ability to provide the necessary care. Unfortunately, the number of patient deaths has increased significantly. Unfortunately, the hospital is no longer functioning as a hospital,” he wrote.
He emphasized that “the world cannot remain silent while hospitals, which should be safe havens, turn into scenes of death, destruction and despair.”
The health ministry in Hamas-run Gaza said Monday the death toll at Al-Shifa hospital rose to 34 since the weekend as the facility suffered fuel shortages.
The latest toll included 27 adult intensive care patients and seven babies, deputy health minister in the Gaza Strip, Youssef Abu Rish, told AFP.
The hospitals in northern Gaza have been forced out of service amid fuel shortages and intense combat.
