Israel-Hamas war: Gaza's biggest hospital is also struggling to keep patients alive

As the Israeli army’s ground operations inside Gaza strip gained momentum, the condition of the hospitals in Gaza Strip has become very bad. In many hospitals there is an acute shortage of medicines necessary to save the patients.

The Israeli army is continuously attacking in the Gaza Strip. The targets of the Israeli army are those positions of Hamas from where they are hiding and launching intermittent counterattacks on Israel. But amidst all this, the condition of hospitals in Gaza Strip has become very pathetic. Many hospitals have run out of oxygen and life saving medicines and even fuel to run the generators is also not there.

Israel has strongly denied reports that they fired on the Gaza Strip's largest hospital, but said its troops were fighting Hamas operatives near Al-Shifa.

"During the past hours, false information has been spread that we are surrounding and attacking Al-Shifa hospital," military spokesman Daniel Hagari said in a televised briefing. These are false reports.

The statement came hours after Palestinian officials said two newborns had died in a hospital and dozens of others were at risk in incubators due to lack of electricity. The Israeli army has been carrying out heavy firing and bombing in the Gaza Strip for the past several days to eliminate Hamas.

Aid agencies and hospital staff have said the situation is already "catastrophic" as there are severe shortages of medicines and fuel. Doctors for Human Rights Israel quoted doctors from Al-Shifa as saying that the hospital was surrounded, and there was no way to get the bodies and injured people scattered outside.

Israel said rockets were still being fired from Gaza into southern Israel, where it said about 1,200 people were killed and more than 200 taken hostage by Hamas last month. Palestinian officials said Friday that 11,078 Gaza residents have been killed in air and rocket attacks since October 7, about 40 percent of them children.

Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu said that his country has no plans to recapture Gaza. He said that we do not want to rule Gaza. We do not want to capture it, but we want to give it and us a better future.

The conflict has escalated regional tensions, leading to intensified mutual attacks between Israeli forces and Lebanon's Hezbollah movement. The meeting of Saudi Arabia, Muslim and Arab countries rejected the justification of Israel's self-defense and called for an immediate stop to the military operation in Gaza.