Israeli military vehicles advanced on Monday to the gates of the besieged Al-Shifa hospital complex, Gazan health officials said, as medical staff detailed the increasingly calamitous conditions inside a facility where fuel, medicine and food are running out for the hundreds of patients and thousands of people sheltering there.
Without electricity or fuel, dozens of corpses are decomposing at the hospital because there is no way to preserve or remove them, a chief nurse and a health official said. And doctors said they were desperately trying to keep premature babies warm after removing them from incubators that were now useless.
Doctors and Gazan health officials have said for days that patients at Al-Shifa were dying because of power at the hospital, the Gaza Strip’s largest.
