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GAZA - As Gaza residents brace for an Israeli ground offensive, after days of intense air strikes and a blockade, in response to the attack by the Palestinian militant group Hamas, health ministry official Ashraf Al-Qidra wonders how hospitals will cope.
At least 2,750 Palestinians have been killed and 9,700 wounded since Oct. 7, the health ministry said on Monday. Another 1,000 people were missing and believed to be under rubble. Shifa serves the entire Gaza Strip but more directly the around 800,000 people who live in Gaza City. About 1,300 people were killed in the surprise onslaught, with graphic mobile phone footage and reports from medical and emergency services of atrocities in the overrun towns and kibbutzes.Some Palestinians have fled their homes in Gaza City after the Israeli military warned them to head south.
"I am getting kidney dialysis, and this process is very challenging, we suffer a lot. We suffer from transportation and moving around," he said. In Khan Younis's Nasser Hospital, in the southern Gaza Strip, where ambulances carrying casualties continue to arrive, patients with chronic diseases face the prospect of medical devices failing.
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