At least “179 bodies” were buried today in a “mass grave” opened in the al-Sifa hospital complex, as its director told AFP, clarifying that among them are seven premature babies who died because there was no electricity to keep them alive.
“We were forced to bury them in a mass grave,” said doctor Mohammed Abu Salmiya. “There are bodies strewn in the hospital corridors and the cold rooms of the morgues are no longer supplied” with electricity as no fuel has entered the Gaza Strip since the start of the war between Israel and the Islamist Palestinian group Hamas on October 7. he added.
Today, “a woman and a man in an intensive care unit died,” said Dr. Abu Salmiya, bringing to 29 the number of intensive care patients who died after the power cut in al-Sifah on Saturday.
An AFP journalist inside the hospital, the largest in the Gaza Strip, said the smell of decomposing corpses was stifling.
Fighting and airstrikes continued throughout the night, he added, but were less intense than previous nights.
Israeli armored personnel carriers gathered today at the gates of al-Shifaconsidered by Israel to be a strategic hideout of Hamas.
Source: News Beast
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