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HARROWING CONDITIONS. File photo shows a patient surrounded by family members sitting on a bed in a corridor lit by sunlight seeping through a window, after a partial power cut at the Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital in Deir al-Balah amid continuing battles between Israel and Hamas in the Gaza Strip. Fuel shortages are widespread in the besieged territory, further restricting services at those hospitals that are still open.
Ayman Zaqout had a hard time even reaching the Kamal Adwan, located in Beit Lahia, because of Israeli strikes and evacuation orders.“There was no electricity and I don’t know how they will be able to treat me in these circumstances,” he told AFPTV this week, grimacing from pain as he battled renal colic.
Palestinian militants also seized 251 hostages, of whom 105 remain in Gaza including 34 the military says are dead. In the first days of the war, Gaza’s only power plant stopped working and Israel cut off the electricity supply.To respond to a major emergency – a particularly deadly air strike nearby or a sudden influx of wounded – medics at Kamal Adwan can still turn to solar energy.The lack of fuel also makes it difficult to operate ambulances.
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