The Director General of Hospitals in the Gaza Strip, Muhammad Zaqout, warned on Sunday that about 650 patients and wounded, including 36 children, had their lives in danger due to the catastrophic situation in the Shifa Medical Complex.

Zaqout said, in a press conference: “About 650 sick and wounded people, including 36 children, have their lives in danger due to the catastrophic situation in the Al-Shifa Complex, and we call on Egypt to save their lives.”

On a daily basis, humanitarian aid trucks enter Gaza from the Rafah land crossing with Egypt.

Since the outbreak of the war, Israel has cut off supplies of water, food, medicine, electricity, and fuel to the residents of Gaza, who are approximately 2.3 million Palestinians, who already suffer from extremely deteriorating conditions. As a result of an ongoing Israeli siege since 2006, he also confirmed the presence of “about 1,500 displaced people in the Al-Shifa Medical Complex (west of Gaza City), whose lives are in danger.”

He warned of “the accumulation of garbage and medical waste, the lack of water, and the power outage, which threatens everyone’s lives,” and Zaqout pointed out that “there is no safe place in the Al-Shifa Medical Complex and its surroundings.”

Al-Shifa Hospital and its surroundings, as well as other hospitals in the Gaza Strip, are constantly targeted by bombing by the Israeli army.

For the 37th day, the Israeli army is waging a devastating war on Gaza, which has left more than 11,110 dead, including more than 8,000 children and women, in addition to more than 28,000 wounded, according to official Palestinian sources on Saturday evening.