Live Blog Update| Israel's genocide in Gaza
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Late night recap

12 November 2023 22:59 GMT

Good evening MEE readers.

Al-Shifa hospital remains under Israeli siege, and reports have emerged that five out of 39 premature babies have now died at the hospital due to Israel cutting off all resources in the Gaza strip.

Israeli air strikes destroyed at least five wards, including the main hospital’s cardiac ward. 

The Director-General of the World Health Organization (WHO), Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, said al-Shifa is no longer "functioning as a hospital".

While Israel promised on Saturday to provide fuel to keep needed generators working at the hospital, the director for al-Shifa said that none were provided.

For their part, Israeli officials accused the Hamas movement of blocking supplies of fuel -- a claim which the movement and the hospital denied.

Meanwhile, the Biden administration has warned Israel's army chiefs against making Gaza's hospitals into battlegrounds.

"The United States does not want to see firefights in hospitals, where innocent people, patients receiving medical care, are caught in the crossfire, and we’ve had active consultations with the [Israeli army] on this," US national security adviser Jake Sullivan told CBS on Sunday.

The Gaza death toll has now reached 11,180 since the start of the war on 7 October.

At least 22 hospitals and 49 medical centres have completely stopped working in Gaza, due to Israeli bombing and electricity cuts.

Other important updates from Sunday include:

  • The al-Quds Hospital, the second largest in Gaza, has ceased operations due to a fuel shortage, according to the Palestinian Red Crescent. 

  • Israeli forces have destroyed more than 40,000 housing units in the Gaza Strip, according to local officials. Meanwhile, Israeli bombardments have damaged at least 50 percent of housing units across the besieged strip, officials said.

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

  • The United Nations agency Unrwa announced that 101 of their staff have been killed by Israel in Gaza.

  • 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.

  • Seven Israeli soldiers have been wounded as a result of mortar shells launched by Lebanon's Hezbollah, according to the Israeli army.