60 patients could die from lack of food, water at northern Gaza hospital
Palestinian health authorities say dozens of wounded patients are at risk of dying due to lack of food and water at a hospital in the Israeli-besieged northern Gaza.
The Gaza Strip’s Ministry of Health said late on Tuesday that at least 60 patients were “at risk of death,” at the Indonesian Hospital in the northern town of Beit Lahiya.
“The humanitarian situation inside the hospital has become extremely dangerous, as the wounded lack basic needs, which increases their suffering under the difficult conditions imposed by [Israeli] forces.”
Israel has been using starvation of civilians as a method of warfare in the Gaza Strip, which human rights organizations say is a war crime.
The Gaza ministry also said that at least 28 people had been killed and 54 others wounded in “four massacres against families” in the area over the last 24-hour reporting period.
“A number of victims are still under the rubble and on the roads, and ambulance and civil defense crews cannot reach them.”
In the early hours of Wednesday, the regime’s military forces bombed a residential building in Beit Lahiya, killing at least 20 people, including women and children.
There are fears the death toll could rise as local media reports said at least 30 displaced people were living in the building before it came under attack.
In its daily update on the death toll from more than 14 months of Israel’s war, the ministry said Wednesday that more than 44,780 people have so far been killed across the besieged territory.
Health officials say thousands of unidentified bodies are still buried under the rubble in Gaza; they are not yet included in estimates.
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