As Israeli force raided the al-Shifa Hospital for a third day on Friday, administrators at the hospital reported the deaths of 40 patients, including four premature babies, since November 11 due to a lack of electricity at the medical facility, according to the UN.
A first consignment of fuel has entered Gaza after US pressure on Israel, allowing communications to resume in the territory, where a hospital director on Saturday said 26 people had been killed in a strike in Khan Yunis.
A two-day blackout caused by fuel shortages ended after a first delivery arrived from Egypt late Friday, but UN officials continued to plead for a ceasefire, warning no part of Gaza is safe.
On Saturday, the director of the Nasser Hospital in Khan Yunis said it had received the bodies of 26 people, as well as 23 people with serious injuries, after an air strike on a residential building in the southern region’s Hamad city.
Since Oct 7, 71 internally displaced people have been killed and over 570 injured in UN facilities in Gaza. UN facilities have been overcrowded causing the spread of diseases like acute respiratory illness and diarrhoea.
Meanwhile, according to Gaza authorities, out of the total 12,000 killed people, 5,000 are children and 3,300 are women.
As Gazans struggle to find refuge and shelter amid the ongoing Israeli offensive, the number of killed Palestinians has reached 12,000.
Around 830,000 people are sheltering in overcrowded UN-run shelters in Gaza, with one shower for every 700 people and one toilet for every 150 people.
