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Doctors in Gaza say hospitals are running low on food, water, fuel and medicine. They also say they are overwhelmed by the sheer number of injured and dying. Dr Ebrahem Matar is a heart specialist in the intensive care unit at the Aqsa Martyrs' hospital, the only medical centre in the middle area of the Gaza Strip. It's also one of the areas that the Israeli army has told Palestinians to flee to. He told Newsday that 鈥渢he situation in the hospital is catastrophic. The whole hospital right now is full of wounded people and refugees who took the hospital as a shelter because they lost their houses. So now most of the beds of the hospital are full, the emergency room beds are full, the ICU beds are full of wounded people. We have very limited facilities inside the hospital, only one operating room and limited number of doctors and consultants. Sometimes the severely injured are treated on the floors or the stairs of the hospital and some people are left in ER where because there is no room left inside the ICU they will die.'' He continued ''the pressure of work inside the hospital is too much, barely we find the time to sleep and the hospital is so full of people sheltering that it's difficult now for anyone inside the hospital to find a place to sleep. The corridors and floors of the hospital are full of people even the yards and streets outside the hospital are full of people camping and no place is safe鈥�.

(Pic: Injured Palestinians, a woman and child waiting in the Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital in Deir al-Balah to be treated. November 09, 2023. Credit : Ashraf Amra/Anadolu via Getty Images)