Officials at the Kamal Adwan Hospital in northern Gaza have been sounding the alarm over shortages of fuel and medicine that are threatening to shut down operations at the facility imminently.
The hospital has the only functioning neonatal intensive care unit left in Gaza.
“We are facing a real dilemma here that will have serious effects on the lives of these babies,” Ahmed Zeyad, head of the ICU, said to Al Jazeera.
“We have new borns who are dependent on ventilators to breathe. We need electricity to administer fluids and power working incubators, otherwise the infants will face imminent death,” Zeyad said.
“We are using solar power right now, which was been interrupted five times within just the last hour. This affects the care we provide in this unit,” he added.
At least 40,139 people have been killed and 92,743 wounded in Israel’s genocidal war on Gaza as medical sources said Israeli forces have killed at least 35 Palestinians across Gaza over the past 24 hours.
