DOZENS of wounded patients at the Indonesian Hospital in northern Gaza are at risk of dying due to lack of food and water, Palestinian health authorities have said.
The Ministry of Health in Gaza said late on Tuesday that 60 patients were “at risk of death”.
“The humanitarian situation inside the hospital has become extremely dangerous, as the wounded lack basic needs, which increases their suffering under the difficult conditions imposed by [Israeli] forces,” the ministry said in a statement on Telegram on Tuesday.
The hospital is located in Beit Lahiya in the north of the Gaza Strip, which has been under Israeli military siege since early October.
In its separate daily update on the death toll from Israel’s war on Gaza, the ministry said that at least 28 people had been killed and 54 others injured in “four massacres against families”.
“A number of victims are still under the rubble and on the roads, and ambulance and civil defence crews cannot reach them,” the ministry added.
The death toll from Israel’s war on Gaza since October 7, 2023, rose to 44,786 people following the latest attacks, the ministry said.
The Palestinian news agency Wafa later reported that at least seven Palestinians had been killed and others injured when Israeli fighter jets bombed a multistorey residential building in the Nuseirat refugee camp.
The ministry’s latest update came after Sigrid Kaag, the United Nations’ humanitarian coordinator for the Gaza crisis, briefed members of the UN Security Council in a closed meeting in New York on Tuesday afternoon.
Speaking to reporters after the briefing, Kaag said she told the council the situation in the Gaza Strip is “a very, very bleak picture”.
“I’ve spoken of the inhumane conditions in which our fellow human being civilians are trying to survive, the young and the old,” she said.
Responding to a question from Al Jazeera’s Gabriel Elizondo on whether the fall of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad’s regime could overshadow Israel’s war on Gaza, Kaag said she was working to keep Gaza “on the map”.
