How Israel’s deadly air raids have affected health facilities in Gaza

Israel’s pounding of the Gaza Strip has had a “catastrophic” impact on healthcare facilities, according to healthcare officials.

Since Israel cut off all electricity, fuel and water to Gaza on 9 October, hospitals have been particularly overwhelmed, with a lack of resources and a high volume of critically wounded patients. 

Patients who have been wounded in air strikes, pregnant women, children and kidney-failure patients are some of the worst affected. The hospitals which are still working are running on generators, which health officials say won't last long. 

International organisations have also warned about the spread of water-borne diseases and scabies due to a lack of clean water in the Strip.

Here’s an overview of the health facilities affected by Israel’s bombing: 

- Mohammed Zakkout, the director general of hospitals in Gaza, says that eight out of 24 hospitals in Gaza have now stopped working.

- Heavy Israeli shelling landed close to the al-Amal hospital in Gaza’s Khan Younis on Monday, video footage shared by the Palestine Red Crescent Society showed.

- On Monday, an Israeli air strike struck near the al Wafa hospital, leaving at least two people wounded. The full extent of the damage is still being assessed. 

- The World Health Organization (WHO) said that around two-thirds of Gaza’s health facilities - 46 out of 72 - have ceased functioning amid a massive and deadly increase in Israeli air raids.  

- At least 25 ambulances in the besieged enclave have been destroyed, according to the Ministry of Health.

- Israel’s bombing of the al-Ahli al-Arab Hospital, which killed at least 500 Palestinians, has left it out of service. The hospital was treating hundreds of patients.