Israel-Palestine live: Israel and Palestinians agree to truce, hostage deal

The director for Gaza’s al-Shifa Hospital said on Sunday that Israel did not provide the hospital with any fuel, and they have not refused any fuel.

Speaking to al Jazeera Arabic, he said: “We need at least 8,000 litres of fuel a day to operate the hospital, and Israel is talking about giving us only 300 litres.”

Earlier today, the Israeli army said it supplied 300 litres of fuel for “urgent medical purposes” at Shifa Hospital in Gaza City, but Hamas prevented the medical centre from receiving it.
 

A spokesperson for Palestine’s Ministry of Health told Al Jazeera Arabic that stray dogs have started to eat the bodies of the dead piling on the streets.

According to the spokesperson, relentless Israeli bombing and nowhere to bury the dead as well as a lack of resources has meant that bodies have been strewn across the street. 

Al Jazeera English reported that dozens of bodies remain abandoned near the al-Shifa hospital and in its courtyard, as survivors are unable to bury them due to ongoing bombing. 

“We asked to be able to bury the bodies, but anyone who goes out into the courtyard of al-Shifa hospital gets shot,” said Mohammed Zaqut, director-general of Gaza hospitals.
 

Gaza's internet connectivity remains below half of pre-bombardment levels, according to NetBlocks, a global internet monitor.

The group said the Palestinian Minister of Communications has reported that the fuel used to power generators that are keeping some connectivity lines open is expected to be depleted by Monday.

Doctors Without Borders (MSF) reported that their staff in Gaza are seeing dead people in the streets as Israel continues to bombard the besieged enclave. 

“We see people being shot at. We can see injured people. We hear them crying for help, but we cannot do anything. It is too dangerous to go outside,” one of their staff members in Gaza said. 

The organisation also said that all medical staff, including theirs, as well as patients in critical condition are still inside al-Shifa hospital. 
“We call for a cessation of attacks on hospitals, for an immediate ceasefire, and safe passage for  those who wish to leave hospitals,” they said, on social media platform X. 

MSF reiterated that they have not been able to contact their staff inside the hospital since last night, while their staff in other locations said that hostilities around the hospital have not stopped. “We are worried for their lives,” they said. 

Three out of 39 premature babies have now died at al-Shifa Hospital due to Israel cutting off all resources in the Gaza strip, a spokesperson for the Palestinian Ministry of Health said on Sunday.

The neonatal intensive care unit stopped working on 11 November due to a lack of electricity, the facility’s director said.

The remaining babies in the neonatal intensive care unit are at risk of losing their lives as the hospital runs out of fuel.

The spokesperson for the Palestinian Ministry of Health also said that four people have also died as a result of inability to carry out surgeries on them. 

Seven Israeli soldiers have been wounded as a result of mortar shells launched by Lebanon's Hezbollah, the Israeli military said on Sunday. 

The Israeli military also said that 15 launches from Lebanon were identified in the past hour, with four being intercepted and the rest falling in open areas. 

Hamas's military wing meanwhile claimed responsibility for shelling northern Haifa and the Israeli border towns of Na'ura and Shlomi from southern Lebanon, without giving any further details.
 

Two patients in the intensive care unit (ICU) in Gaza's al-Shifa hospital died on Sunday, according to the hostpial's director. 

"If the catastrophic situation continues as it is, all the ICU patients will die. Dialysis patients may die by tomorrow as we are no longer able to treat them," he said in a statement. 

Earlier, Gaza's government media office announced that the ICU ward along with the surgery and maternity wards had been targeted in Israeli bombings. 

According to Mustafa Surour, a journalist speaking from Gaza's al-Shifa hospital, five buildings have been targeted in Israeli bombing and have been partially destroyed. 

The journalist made the comments live to Al Jazeera Arabic.
 

Speaking from a live press conference in Gaza's Deir al Balah on Sunday, a Palestinian government official said that the Gaza death toll has now reached 11,180 since the start of the war on 7 October. 

The spokesperson said 22 hospitals and 49 medical centres have completely stopped working in Gaza, due to Israeli bombing and the cutting off of all fuel and electricity in the Strip since 9 October. 

"Israeli forces have targeted the intensive care unit in the al-Shifa hospital. They have also destroyed the maternity ward and the operating room," he said. 

According to the spokesperson, Israeli bombings have also ignited a fire in one of the wards of the hospital, while an oxygen tank was destroyed. 

"Some doctors have been targeted and wounded while moving around inside the hospital, one person was wounded in the back of the neck. Israel has destroyed a hospital that was established before they were," he added. 

Gaza's government media office also stated that Israeli forces have fully destroyed seven mosques and three churches, while 153 mosques have been partially destroyed in bombings. 
 

According to footage shared by local Palestinian media, a Palestinian baby died while on the way to south Gaza from the north. 

Many Palestinians have been forcibly moved to the south by Israel, with no guarantee of their return to their homes. 

In the video, a man is holding the baby, who died in his arms, as he asks: "It's just a baby, what have they done to deserve this?"

On 11 October, a doctor who spoke to Middle East Eye's Gaza correspondent said that they saw dead bodies strewn across the roads on their journey to the south. 

Palestinian Minister of Health Mai al-Kaila said on Sunday that Israeli forces were "not evacuating people", but rather "forcing wounded patients onto the streets, leaving them to face inevitable death".

According to the minister, this amounts to "expulsion under the threat of arms". She also noted that there was a "catastrophe unfolding" in all of Gaza's hospitals, with patients dying without being able to be treated.

Some of the worst-affected are those with kidney failure, who have not been able to undergo dialysis. 

The minister also said that there are 3,000 cancer patients at the Rantisi and Turkish hospitals who face imminent death, while pregnant women were also in danger.

"All pregnant women, especially those with high-risk pregnancies, are now in imminent danger as they cannot find anyone to provide them with medical care and services in Gaza. Every woman about to give birth will find no medical assistance," she said. 

Medical Aid for Palestinians issued a statement on X, formerly Twitter, on Sunday, saying it was "deeply concerned" over Israeli plans to move premature babies to a "safer hospital".

It said: "The only safe option to save these babies would be for Israel to cease its assault and besiegement of Al Shifa, to allow fuel to reach the hospital, and to ensure that the surviving parents of these babies can be reunited with them."

It added: "The transfer of critically ill neonates is a complex and technical process which MAP has been working to develop in Gaza.

"With ambulances unable to reach the hospital and no hospital with capacity to receive them, there is no indication of how this [moving them] can be done safely."

According to Israeli media, the Israeli military said that they would be helping "the babies in the paediatric department to get to a safer hospital. We will provide the assistance needed."

Doctors from the al-Shifa hospital recount the moment they made the difficult choice of leaving the hospital, which is now under Israeli siege after Israel gave medical staff an ultimatum on Friday afternoon. 

Speaking to MEE's Aseel Mousa, Palestinian surgeon Hayal al-Sheikh Khalil said she left al-Shifa after spending more than a month inside the facility since the beginning of the Israeli onslaught on Gaza over a month ago.  

She told Middle East Eye that she had left the hospital along with her two brothers and a number of female doctors.

"I cannot comprehend the atrocities committed by the Israeli occupation in al-Shifa hospital, a facility housing a very large number of wounded individuals and civilian doctors who have left their homes and families to provide care," Khalil said.

She said that many of the patients in al-Shifa have lost their entire families, leaving them without anyone to attend to their needs. 

The urgency of their situation requires transportation by ambulance, she said, yet ambulances are scarce in the Gaza Strip, with many of them having been bombed and additional ambulances unable to reach the hospital.

"Most of the cases I have operated on are children, who are now left without adequate medical staff, no medical materials, no electricity and no fuel. They are literally left to die," Khalil said.

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The first group of foreigners and injured Palestinians evacuated after the Rafah border crossing re-opened arrived in Egypt from Gaza on Sunday, four Egyptian security sources told Reuters.

Several injured Palestinians arrived on Egyptian soil to receive medical treatment, plus 80 foreign nationals and dependents, with more undergoing border procedures, the sources said.

Evacuations through the border crossing were suspended on Friday after issues regarding transporting injured Palestinians from northern Gaza.

Overnight, Israeli forces struck parts of Rafah, to where thousands have moved after being displaced from northern Gaza. 

Among the thousands of Palestinians who have been displaced to the south are foreign nationals waiting to leave the besieged enclave.