The Palestine Red Crescent Society announced today, Sunday, that Al-Quds Hospital in Gaza has been out of service due to running out of fuel and a power outage.

Mai Al-Kaila, Palestinian Minister of Health, said yesterday that the Israeli occupation forces are bombing hospitals, besieging and killing those inside them, cutting off water, fuel, and electricity, and preventing medical supplies from reaching them, according to what the Arab World News Agency reported.

Earlier today, the spokesman for the Ministry of Health in Gaza, Ashraf Al-Qudra, said that Al-Shifa Hospital in the northern Gaza Strip is unable to provide any medical service, after all its capabilities had been exhausted, electricity had been completely cut off, and the complex had been surrounded by Israeli tanks.

Al-Qudra added that the situation around the hospital is a war zone. Pointing out that the conditions that patients live in in the complex “cannot be described.”

He added: “The bodies are piled up in and in front of Al-Shifa Hospital, and there is no one to bury them.”

The Ministry of Health spokesman stated that the hospital is witnessing successive announcements of new deaths, as a result of the inability to perform surgical operations or even provide oxygen to those who need it, or provide heating in children’s incubators.

He said that the Israeli army was “firing towards any object that could move” in the vicinity of the hospital, according to the Arab World News Agency.

He explained that international institutions working in the health field, such as the World Health Organization and the Red Cross, as well as the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Refugees (UNRWA), “are all unable to do anything, and have lost their ability to work.”