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Israel-Hamas War: As the conflict between Israel and militant Hamas groups seems no sign of mitigation yet, hospitals in the Gaza Strip are on the verge of collapsing due to a lack of electricity and basic supplies, and doctors are forced to make difficult decisions about which patients need ventilators, whether to treat them at all, or whether to perform resuscitation, news agency ANI reported citing The New York Times.

On Monday, it was claimed that young children are receiving brain surgery or amputations in hospitals without access to anaesthetic or clean water to heal their wounds. Several medical professionals who served during the battle in Gaza said conditions inside the overcrowded and impoverished territory are the worst they have ever seen, as entire apartment blocks, schools and hospitals crumble.

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"Our teams are physically and psychologically exhausted," said Basem al Najjar, the deputy of the head of Al-Aqsa Hospital in the city of Deir al-Balah in central Gaza, as quoted by ANI.

"Some doctors remain a whole week in the hospital. Some of their families are brought to the hospital killed or injured. And some doctors go home and are killed there and then the bodies are brought back to the hospital," he said.

Gaza Under Darkness

According to the report, there are severe shortages of food, fuel, water, medicine, and other necessities as a result of the Israeli-imposed blockade of the area following the October 7 strike. major part of Gaza is without electricity after Israel cut off the supply and the main power plant ran out of fuel nearly four weeks ago.

A lack of freshwater supplies and iodine has left wounds filthy, with maggots nibbling at patients' charred and torn flesh, according to interviews with doctors at four hospitals across Gaza. Without adequate water, doctors and nurses are unable to provide sufficient sanitation for their patients, to wash wounds or hospital bedsheets.

(With ANI Inputs)