(11 Jul 2024)
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Gaza City, Gaza Strip – 11 July 2024
1. Mid of people speaking with one of medical staff outside UNMAS tent
2. Wide of doctor sitting inside a UNMAS tent
3. Various of woman speaking to doctor inside tent
4. Various of empty beds inside hospital
5. Mid of people around sick relative
6. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Mohammed al-Sheikh, nurse in the emergency department at Al-Ahli Hospital:
”It’s been four days since the Baptist Hospital stopped working. Today, we returned to the Baptist Hospital to open reception and emergency (facilities) temporarily, in danger and under fire, in order to be here for primary care in northern Gaza, as the danger still exists, and the area is still under fire and under bombing, and injured people are still arriving."
7. Various of Mohammed al-Sheikh speaking to patient
8. Various of woman sitting in hospital corridors waiting to be seen by doctor
9. Various of sick child on bed
10. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Muhammad Qanita, patient:
“We are ordinary civilians. We complain of pain and deep wounds, and this Baptist Hospital is the only hospital operating in Gaza. It is not possible for those with disabilities to move from one place to another far away.”
11. Patient Muhammad Qanita using wheelchair to enter emergency department
12. Various of Qanitah inside emergency department
13. Various of Al-Ahli hospital
STORYLINE:
One of the main hospitals in Gaza City partially resumed operations on Thursday, days after evacuating its patients and staff in the face of an Israeli military assault in the area.
Al-Ahli Hospital was vacated on Monday after the Israeli military issued evacuation orders for central and eastern parts of Gaza City ahead of an offensive.
Staff rushed patients to the Indonesian Hospital in another part of northern Gaza.
The Episcopal Church in the Middle East, which operates Al-Ahli, said the hospital was “compelled to close by the Israeli army” after the evacuation orders and a wave of nearby drone strikes on Sunday.
The military later said it told hospitals and other medical facilities in Gaza City they did not need to evacuate. But hospitals in Gaza have often shut down and moved patients at any sign of possible Israeli military action, fearing a repeat of destructive raids that troops have launched on multiple hospitals.
On Thursday, staff reopened the emergency ward and were admitting new patients, though the rest of the facility was still not functioning.
Mohammed al-Sheikh, a nurse in the emergency department, said the hospital was resuming primary care "as the danger still exists, and the area is still under fire and under bombing, and injured people are still arriving," referring to Israel’s continued military offensive in Gaza City.
With Al-Ahli’s reopening, 14 of Gaza’s 36 hospitals are partially functioning, according to U.N. figures, while the rest have been shut down because of damage to facilities, lack of fuel, supplies or staff or because of nearby fighting.
Production by Wafaa Shurafa.
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