The Turkish-Palestinian Friendship Hospital in Gaza, unique for the treatment of cancer patients, has stopped its operations due to lack of fuelthe UN warned this Thursday, which has also reported bombings at the Al Hilo hospital center, also in the capital and used like motherhood.

This second health facility suffered projectile attacks around 8:00 p.m. local time on Wednesday (6:00 p.m. GMT), the daily report of the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs indicated. It is estimated that in There are currently about 50,000 pregnant women in Gaza and about 160 births a day.; The maternity facilities of the territory’s main hospital, Al-Shifa, are now used to treat wounded people, so its activities had been moved to the Al Hilo centre.

The report warns that 14 of Gaza’s 35 hospitals with capacity to admit patients do not function, nor do 71% of primary care centers (51 out of 72). Sources from the Gaza Ministry of Health warned that the Al-Shifa hospital, in the capital, and the Indonesian Hospital of Beit Lahiyain the devastated north of the strip, have almost exhausted their fuel and could therefore soon stop their operations.

The Israeli Army, which has attacked positions near hospitals such as Al-Shifa or the Turkish-Palestinian Friendship Hospital, has defended that part of these facilities or underground areas under them are used for military purposes by Hamas, because they would not be protected by international law.

Almost 9,000 dead

After 26 days of hostilities that began with the terrorist attacks on October 7 in Israeli territory near Gaza, the deaths in that strip according to the Gaza Ministry of Health amount to 8,805, including 3,648 minors and 2,187 women. The number of internally displaced people in Gaza remains at 1.4 million, of which at least 300,000 are in northern Gaza, the main target of Israeli attacks (although these also reach the center and south of the strip), according to United Nations.

In recent days there has been an exodus of some 100,000 people who took refuge with their families in accommodation of the UN Agency for Palestinian Refugees (UNRWA), many of them in overcrowded conditions and where almost 700,000 people currently live.

In the West Bank, Israeli forces killed five more Palestinians on Wednesday, bringing the number of deaths in that territory since October 7 to 129 (128 Palestinians, including 35 children, and an Israeli soldier). In the West Bank, Israeli arrests of Palestinians also continue, with another 70 arrests on the night of October 31 to November 1, raising the total to 1,830among whom, according to the UN Office for Human Rights, there are suspected cases of arbitrary detention and mistreatment.

Two of them have died in custodyrecalls this Thursday the report of the UN coordination office, which raised the number of United Nations workers killed since October 7 to 70, “the highest number suffered by UN humanitarian employees in such a period of time.” short”.