At least 179 bodies were buried this Tuesday in a mass grave dug in the Shifa hospital complex, according to the director of Gaza’s health department. He added that seven premature babies died due to a lack of electricity to keep them alive.
“We were forced to bury them in a mass grave,” Mohammed Abou Salmiya, director of the hospital, told France Presse.
“There are corpses strewn throughout the corridors of the hospital facilities and the cold rooms in the morgues no longer have electricity,” as not a single “drop of fuel” has entered the Gaza Strip since the war began on October 7. he added.
Today, “a woman and a man died in intensive care,” reported Dr. Abu Salmiya, bringing to 29 the number of patients who have died in these services since the electricity outage last Saturday.
A journalist working for Agence France Presse who was at the hospital, the largest in the Gaza Strip, reported that the “smell of decomposing bodies” was suffocating.
Fighting and airstrikes continued throughout Monday evening, but with less intensity than previous nights, France Presse reported.
On Tuesday, Israeli tanks focused on the gates of the hospital, which Israel considers a strategic hideout for Hamas.
Source: DN
