Since dawn today, Saturday, Israeli occupation forces have surrounded the Al-Shifa Medical Complex, west of Gaza City, which is being subjected to violent and intense bombardment, amid a complete power outage.

According to medical sources, an infant died due to exposure to the cold in the nursery, and four patients in the intensive care unit died due to a power outage in the Al-Shifa Complex, the surroundings of which are subject to continuous bombing.

According to eyewitnesses, the occupation tanks targeted a medical team that was heading to inspect the martyrs and wounded inside the compound’s courtyards, and a group of displaced people who tried to leave it, a short while ago, with shells.

The pediatric intensive care departments and oxygen machines stopped working in the Al-Shifa Complex, and the occupation forces bombed the surgery building on the fifth floor, resulting in many wounded, and there is no communication between the departments, or even movement within it.

Medical teams have also been working with 37 premature babies in incubators manually for 3 hours, amid warnings that others will be martyred in the coming hours.

Occupation vehicles have been besieging the complex since dawn today, as all the neighboring buildings were bombed, and thousands of wounded and displaced people are trapped inside, without electricity, food, water, or fuel, and dozens of martyrs’ bodies are piled up in its courtyards, and a fire broke out next to the kidney department, and in IDP camps, amid fears that it will spread to other places.

According to eyewitnesses, the occupation vehicles are only 500 meters away from the Al-Shifa Complex, targeting anyone who moves inside its courtyards.

The Journalists Syndicate has warned of a massacre that may occur against journalists present in the vicinity of Al-Shifa Hospital in Gaza City, in light of the targeting they are being subjected to, after communication with them has been cut off.

According to the International Committee of the Red Cross, there is difficulty evacuating Al-Shifa Medical Complex, because there are more than 60 patients in intensive care, more than fifty infants in the premature and incubation departments, and more than 500 patients in the dialysis departments.

Occupation tanks, which entered overland a few days ago, surrounded four hospitals west of Gaza City.

According to the Ministry of Health, 198 health personnel and 36 civil defense personnel were martyred, and more than 130 were injured, while 60 ambulances were damaged, including 53 that were completely out of service, and 51 out of 72 primary health care centers due to damage resulting from the bombing or lack of fuel. 24 hospitals were asked to evacuate in the northern Gaza Strip (the total capacity of these hospitals is 2,000 beds).

55% of health sector partners also suspended their operations due to major damage to infrastructure, while the ongoing aggression led to the displacement of most health personnel, forcing hospitals to work with less than a third of the necessary capacity to treat the large number of wounded, and hospitals are still suffering from a severe shortage of fuel, leading to strict rationing and limited use of electricity generators for essential functions only.

She noted the possibility of stopping the neonatal incubators that house 130 children, pointing out that there are 350,000 patients with non-communicable diseases, and 1,000 patients in need of dialysis, as 80% of the dialysis machines are in hospitals in northern Gaza.

The ongoing Israeli aggression on the Gaza Strip since the seventh of last October has resulted in more than 11,078 martyrs, including 4,506 children and 3,027 women, in addition to the injury of 27,490 citizens, the majority of whom are women and children, an infinite toll.