Indonesian hospital to ‘stop functioning in 48 hours’ if it does not receive immediate help

Atef al Kahlout, the manager of Gaza’s Indonesian Hospital in north Gaza, says it will close down “in 48 hours” if it does not receive emergency help in the form of water and fuel. 

“The hospital has no water left, even salty water, there is nothing,” he said in a televised interview on Tuesday.

“If the hospital stops functioning, this will make it a catastrophe in every essence of the word. The bombing today in close proximity to the hospital has caused it to shake,” he added.

“We have a lack of all necessary tools and medicines, especially in the emergency department. We have just had 400 wounded people come in, most of them children and women. Many of them have wounds we have not seen before, we are not sure if Israel is using new weapons we have not seen before.”