The number of kidney dialysis patients at central Gaza’s only Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital has doubled more than ever and hundreds of patients are now receiving fewer treatment sessions from just 24 dialysis machines.
Dead bodies keep showing up inside the hospital, while injured people continue to lie on the floors and patients are housed within medical tents and on mattresses outside the structure.
Here, thousands of Palestinian refugees have taken up residence, cramming themselves into waiting areas and hallways.
As a result of Israeli military orders to evacuate, a large number of chronic disease patients who were receiving treatment at hospitals in the besieged enclave’s north are now at Al Aqsa Martyrs.
At least 6,546 Palestinians, including 2,704 children, were killed and 17,439 wounded in Israeli strikes since October 7, the health ministry in Hamas-controlled Gaza said on Wednesday.
In the past 24 hours, 756 Palestinians including 344 children were killed in Israeli strikes, the ministry said.
The ministry said, “The massacres took place in the southern region of the Gaza Strip.”
Talking about the health system, the ministry said the attacks targeted and damaged 57 institutions, and that 73 medical staff were killed and 25 ambulances were now out of service.
