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Staff will be working in the hospital soon.
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🚨 URGENT UPDATE: Doctors in
#Gaza
have issued an urgent warning that the lives of 130 premature babies are in imminent danger if fuel does not reach hospitals soon.
1/4
"This is the fastest decline in a population's nutrition status ever recorded. That means children are being starved at the fastest rate the world has ever seen."
@melanie_ward
speaks with
@IsaCNN
about the catastrophic levels of hunger that Israel's blockade is causing in Gaza
🚨Babies in the neonatal intensive care unit at Shifa Hospital, which MAP has supported over many years, are beginning to die from lack of oxygen. More will die soon unless the power supply is restored.
MAP’s CEO
@melanie_ward
responds:⬇️🧵(1/6)
"It's the fastest decline in a population's nutrition status ever recorded. What that means is that children are starving at the fastest rate that the world has ever known."
@Melanie_Ward
warns of the catastrophic situation in Gaza speaking to
@itvnews
"...We call on world leaders to demand that Israel urgently allow fuel in to Gaza’s hospitals. A failure to act is to sentence these babies to death."
3/4
MAP CEO
@melanie_ward
: "The lives of 130 premature babies in
#Gaza
are in imminent danger due to the lack of fuel. The world cannot simply look on as these babies are killed by the siege on Gaza..."
2/4
“No one can get out from the Shifa hospital. No one can come in. The people who tried to evacuate this morning were being shot in the streets.”
Dr Marwan Abu Sada, Head of Surgery at Al Shifa Hospital, describes horrifying scenes as Israel attacks the Gaza hospital this morning.
Our team in
#Gaza
is working with local partners to ensure that Palestinians get the medical aid they need during this critical time. We need your support urgently. Please donate if you can 👇
There are six neonatal intensive care units at hospitals in Gaza, including Shifa and Nasser hospitals. Since 9 October, Israeli authorities have imposed a "total closure" Gaza, halting the entry of fuel and electricity.
4/4
The ICU of Al Shifa hospital has been bombed. Staff have been shot at and wounded. Power has gone, staff are having to hand ventilate patients, and babies in neonatal ICU are starting to die from lack of oxygen.
Israel's war on hospitals must end.
Our website has been under cyber attack since this afternoon, in an apparent attempt to prevent people donating towards our medical relief efforts for
#Gaza
. As a result we are experiencing disruptions and the website may go offline. 1/2
We are urgently working to evacuate siblings Rafif, 13 and Rafiq, 15 from Shifa Hospital where they are trapped. They have severe injuries from an Israeli military airstrike, which also killed their mother and ten other family members, and had to have their limbs amputated. (1/4)
🚨 Gaza update
🔴 3,478 Palestinians killed including more than 1,500 children and injured 12,000 including more than 5,000 children
🔴 1 million people have fled their homes, almost half of the besieged population
Telephone and internet communications with
#Gaza
appear to have been shut off. We are currently unable to get in touch with any of our colleagues there, while heavy bombardment has been reported.
⚠ Confirmed: Live network data show a collapse in connectivity in the
#Gaza
Strip with high impact to Paltel, amid reports of heavy bombardment; the company is the last remaining major operator to supply service as connectivity declines amid ongoing fighting with Israel 📉
After six weeks of Israel’s siege, food in Gaza is rapidly running out. There are severe shortages of fuel and clean water for cooking. We must stand together to protect Gaza’s children, who will go to bed tonight hungry.
Please take action and demand a
#CeasefireNOW
.
"I never expected in my life I'd see such an appalling situation. Multiple children brought in, some only a few months old, with horrific burns, many of them dead."
@maynard_nick
spoke to
@IsaCNN
about Al Aqsa Hospital, which is being evacuated due to Israeli military threats
🚨Rafah’s main hospital is no longer functioning after Israel ordered its evacuation.
This leaves over 1 million people in Rafah with 1 hospital (capacity: 16 beds), a field hospital which serves only as a trauma stabilisation point, and 1 hospital only providing maternity care.
🚨Israel’s indiscriminate bombardment and siege is making it impossible to sustain human life in
#Gaza
.
Our political leaders must heed the call from 36 UN human rights experts to take action to prevent genocide against the
#Palestinian
people. (1/9) 🧵
🚨MAP is horrified by reports of an Israeli military airstrike on a convoy of ambulances at the entrance of the Shifa Hospital.
This latest attack occurs amid persistent and ongoing violations against
#Palestinian
hospitals and healthcare in
#Gaza
. (1/5)
🚨 UPDATE: We understand from our team in
#Gaza
that many houses have been destroyed in Al Naser Village this evening and that the targeting of residential buildings in Rafah is also ongoing.
The Ministry of Health reports 103 dead, 27 of them children, and 180 wounded.
1/
This evening, UK healthcare workers united in front of Downing Street to call on the British government to demand a
#CeasefireNOW
in
#Gaza
and the immediate entry of aid.
Israel’s assault has damaged hospitals, clinics and ambulances. 192 healthcare workers have been killed.
🚨Medical staff from Shifa Hospital say they have been forced to flee the hospital on foot with critically ill patients through a warzone.
With two thirds of hospitals in
#Gaza
now shut down, there is no capacity to receive them. (1/7)
This morning, Israeli forces raided Ibn Sina Hospital in Jenin disguised as civilians and medical personnel, killing three Palestinians.
According to Dr Tawfiq Shawbaki, the head of Ibn Sina’s surgery unit, Israeli forces beat some of the doctors and nurses at the hospital (1/5)
MAP CEO
@melanie_ward
on tonight's developments in
#Gaza
:
"As Israel's indiscriminate bombardment continues to intensify, and a large-scale ground operation looks imminent, we have lost all contact with our team in
#Gaza
this evening."
1/5
“Today’s escalation is one of the most violent that we have ever witnessed in
#Gaza
, with hospitals overwhelmed by casualties within hours.”
Please consider donating to our emergency response today so we can respond rapidly to the growing health crisis:
For those unable to donate on our site but wishing to support our work, please visit:
You can also donate via Facebook and Instagram.
Thank you for your solidarity 🙏
2/2
🚨Yesterday the Israeli military raided the Kamal Adwan Hospital and took 70 medical staff to an undisclosed location.
MAP is gravely concerned for their welfare, as well as patients, staff and displaced people reportedly trapped inside without electricity, water or food.
Update from Gaza:
🚨The situation has worsened with heavy ongoing bombardment
🚨Our staff say they feel very unsafe and are struggling to sleep
🚨Gaza is now cut into three - the North, South and Middle Area
🚨UN organisations say they are no longer able to distribute any aid
🚨The Rantisi Hospital in
#Gaza
, the only hospital that provides specialised services to children, has just been told to evacuate its staff as the building will soon be destroyed by Israeli forces.
This terrible threat puts even more children at risk of death and injury.
We are deeply concerned to learn that one of Gaza's most senior orthopedic surgeons, Dr Adnan Al Bursh, has died while detained in an Israeli prison.
His death must be urgently investigated, amid reports of torture, ill treatment and medical neglect of Palestinian detainees.
🔴 Gaza update
🚨 8,000 Palestinians including more than 3,500 children and injured more than 20,000 others 40% of them are children.
🚨 1,800 Palestinians missing under the rubble of buildings
🚨 70% of the victims are children, women and the elderly
🚨 An invasion of Rafah must not be allowed to go ahead.
Following Israel’s ‘evacuation’ orders for areas in northern and central Gaza, over two thirds of Gaza’s population, including more than 600,000 children, have sought shelter there.
(1/3)
🚨
#Palestinians
in
#Gaza
are facing an unprecedented humanitarian catastrophe as a result of Israel’s military assault.
The targeting of civilians is never acceptable. Please take urgent action and email your MP now to save lives:
Our second convoy of five trucks carrying drugs and medical supplies has just entered
#Gaza
via the
#Rafah
Crossing.
This essential aid, worth more than $550,000, will be distributed to hospitals in the south of Gaza responding to the unprecedented influx of injuries.
Medical Aid for Palestinians is horrified by a reported Israeli airstrike on Al Ahli Hospital in
#Gaza
, and the death and destruction to hundreds of innocent lives that it has caused. (1/6)
🚨 We are deeply concerned by threats by the Israeli military against the Al Quds
@PalestineRCS
hospital in
#Gaza
. The lives of patients, staff and approximately 14,000 displaced people sheltering in the hospital are at risk.
They must be protected. Healthcare is
#NotATarget
.
Today marks one month since the ICJ issued provisional measures indicating that there is a plausible risk of genocide against Palestinians in Gaza.
Israel is required to outline the measures it has taken since 26 January. But this is what has happened in the last month 🧵 (1/6)
🚨These are the devastating scenes inside
#Gaza
’s Shifa Hospital, where corridors and emergency departments are full of injured people.
Last night, an Israeli military airstrike hit a convoy of ambulances at the entrance of the hospital.
📹: Dr Marwan Abusada.
“When is this going to stop. What is the number of dead bodies that would actually make you put pressure on Israel to stop its aggression on Gaza?”
Listen to this urgent message to the international community from MAP’s Mahmoud Shalabi in
#Gaza
:
“Last night was horrific. The system has fallen apart - not even the best triage system can withstand this. The operating rooms are full. We have run out of morphine. There's no space for dignity in dying."
This is the harrowing report sent to us by Dr James Smith, a MAP EMT.
We are deeply saddened to hear that Hidaya Hamad was killed by Israeli forces. We send our solidarity to
@PalestineRCS
at this horrific time.
Health workers are protected under international law. Their safety must be upheld. Israel must end its attacks on healthcare.
Our colleague Hidaya Hamad, the Director of the Youth and Volunteers Department in Gaza, was killed due to the occupation's gunfire while she was present at the PRCS's headquarters in
#KhanYunis
.
RIP Hidaya 🙏
#NotATarget
❌
#Gaza
#IHL
🚨NEW: More health workers have been killed during Israel’s assault on Gaza than in all countries in conflict in any year since 2016.
That’s over 300 medical staff in just 10 weeks.
Israel’s attacks are systematically dismantling Gaza’s health system:
🚨 Hospitals in
#Gaza
are reporting that they will only function for a matter of hours due to fuel shortages after the Israeli military closed the
#Rafah
crossing.
The European Hospital has already run out of fuel and is in blackout.
Fuel and aid must be allowed in immediately.
The healthcare system in
#Gaza
is facing total collapse. According to UN OCHA hospitals are experiencing unprecedented devastation, with an overwhelming number of injuries and dire shortages of vital resources, including medical personnel, electricity and water. (1/6)
🚨Israel is threatening to attack hospitals in northern
#Gaza
. Sheltering inside are countless patients, staff and displaced people, terrified for their lives.
@JamesCleverly
, the UK must intervene to save hospitals and innocent lives.
RT if you agree.
Shifa Hospital has been under Israeli military invasion and siege for five days and forces have killed more than 150 Palestinians and arrested 600.
Hundreds of people are trapped inside Shifa Hospital with little food and water. (3/4)
🚨Today marks a shocking milestone in Israel’s ongoing assault on
#Gaza
as we learn that 10,000
#Palestinians
have now been killed. Over 4,000 of the dead are children, and 1.5 million people are displaced from their homes.
Our latest statement:
🚨MAP demands the urgent protection of thousands of patients, medical staff, and displaced civilians trapped in the Nasser Hospital in Gaza, following the Israeli military’s storming of the facility this morning.
Our statement:
“It is imperative that the international community demands a
#CeasefireNOW
, allowing the hospital to operate safely.
We say again international law must be upheld. The life of every patient, health worker and displaced person in Shifa is precious and must be protected.” (6/6)
The latest from
#Gaza
:
🚨 Communications have now gone dark in Gaza, save for a few people with e-sim cards.
@MedicalAidPal
has lost contact with most of our team.
🚨 Al Ahli, the last hospital in operation, has now been encircled, and the area around it is under attack.
The forcible transfer and deportation of Palestinians in
#Gaza
must not be allowed to happen. Civilians must be protected wherever they are. States must uphold their
#ResponsibilityToProtect
against atrocities.
PRESS RELEASE: Any attempts by Israel to deport and permanently displace Palestinians within and from Gaza would constitute a serious breach of international law.
‘We’re gravely concerned about the safety of patients and medics at Shifa Hospital, and this is part of a pattern of systematically dismantling the health system in Gaza.’
MAP’s CEO
@melanie_ward
on
@BBCr4today
calls for the protection of patients and medics at Shifa Hospital:
“Despite having confirmation it’s demarcated, it was still bombed.”
@aliciakearns
tells
@amanpour
that she condemns the Israeli airstrike on the compound housing MAP's Emergency Medical Team in
#Gaza
#Gaza
update:
🚨Increased Israeli airstrikes in Rafah heighten concerns of a ground invasion
🚨28,300+ Palestinians have been killed and 67,984 injured
🚨
@PalestineRCS
report that Israeli forces have raided Al Amal Hospital, detained 18 people and damaged medical equipment
“The only safe option to save these babies would be for Israel to cease its assault and besiegement of Al Shifa, to allow fuel to reach the hospital, and to ensure that the surviving parents of these babies can be reunited with them.” (4/6)
“Before it was shut down this week by Israel’s assault and denial of fuel to the hospital, the NICU’s quality services were a testament to years of investment, the dedication of its staff, and the solidarity and care from people in the UK and around the world.” (2/6)
“We are deeply concerned by uncritical media reporting regarding the Israeli military’s statement that it will help move premature babies trapped at the hospital to a “safer hospital”.” (3/6)
The truce agreement in
#Gaza
will bring some limited respite for Palestinians who have endured 46 days of devastating bombardment, but is far below what is needed to end Gaza's humanitarian calamity.
Only a permanent ceasefire can bring an end to Gaza's suffering. 🧵👇
(1/11)
🚨
#Gaza
update:
🔴9,257
#Palestinians
killed, including 3,826 children. 23,516 people injured
🔴2,100 reports of missing people, including 1,200 children still under the rubble
🔴16 hospitals and 32 primary care centres out of service due to damage or lack of fuel
“The deaths of children in
#Gaza
are not just a tragic accident, they are something that could be stopped, and the international community has a responsibility to protect civilians. We’re not seeing action, we’re seeing a lot of talk.”
MAP’s
@melanie_ward
to the
@CommonsIDC
.
The humanitarian situation in
#Gaza
continues to deteriorate. Amid Israel's indiscriminate bombardment and its siege on food, water, fuel and medical supplies, the healthcare system in Gaza is facing total collapse. (1/5)
“This is not happening because the rains have failed or there has been a poor harvest. It is because starvation is being used as a weapon of war; the Israeli authorities refuse to allow enough food into Gaza."
-
@melanie_ward
, MAP's CEO
Read more 👉
“The transfer of critically ill neonates is a complex and technical process which MAP has been working to develop in Gaza.
With ambulances unable to reach the hospital and no hospital with capacity to receive them, there is no indication of how this can be done safely.” (5/6)
MAP is the only international charity still operating on the ground in the north of Gaza - in recent days we have supported more than 6000 displaced people with dignity kits, pyjamas and winter jackets for men, women and children. Our team in Gaza continues to work tirelessly.
We continue to work for the evacuation of the children to the nearby Al Aqsa Hospital, where our emergency medical team are working.
We demand the urgent protection of the thousands of trapped healthcare workers, patients and displaced civilians.
(4/4)
🚨 Gaza update
🔴 3,785 Palestinians have been killed by Israeli air strikes including more than 1,500 children and injured 12,000 others including more than 5000 children
🔴 more than 1200 Palestinians missing under the rubble
Our first convoy of aid trucks has now entered
#Gaza
via the Rafah crossing, carrying essential medicines and supplies for hospitals.
This wouldn’t have been possible without your support and solidarity with the people of Gaza.
"The problem now is, even if they are physically safe from bombing, there is no water, no food.
If people don't have clean water they will die very quickly, so the situation couldn't be more urgent."
MAP CEO
@melanie_ward
speaking to Sky News about the urgent crisis in
#Gaza
.
🏥Gaza hospitals update:
Only 16 out of Gaza’s 36 hospitals are functional
According to the Ministry of Health, occupancy rates are reaching 206% in inpatient departments and 250% in intensive care units (1/3)
“We need an answer on how in the world a site like this, a humanitarian site, was bombed?”
@aliciakearns
speaks to
@AndrewMarr9
about Israel’s airstrike on the demilitarised chalet where MAP’s and
@RESCUEorg
's Emergency Medical Team were staying in
#Gaza
🏥 Nasser Hospital update
🚨
@WHO
says Nasser is no longer functional following Israel's raid and siege
🚨70 hospital staff have been arrested
🚨136 patients are reportedly trapped inside
🚨8 patients have died from lack of oxygen supply
🚨 No electricity, food or water
We are gravely worried about the hundreds of healthcare workers and patients trapped inside Shifa Hospital amid the Israeli military’s ongoing siege.
We demand their protection and continue to work with partners to evacuate the patients, including two critically ill children.
Last night, we sent an urgent letter to the Military Advocate General and Israel's Attorney General regarding over 240 sick and injured patients trapped in al-Shifa
#Hospital
in
#Gaza
– without access to food, medication, or treatment since Monday.
They have no water, have not eaten for several days and were already malnourished.
The Israeli army is preventing medical and humanitarian missions from entering Shifa Hospital and has ordered the children’s uncle, Mahmoud, who was caring for them, to leave the hospital. (2/4)
The targeted killing of seven international aid workers by the Israeli military proves yet again that there is no safe place in
#Gaza
.
We stand with our colleagues
@WCKitchen
as they grieve the loss of their team members in Gaza.
#NotATarget
“If we lose the last sliver of our communication, here is my one and only message to the world: It’s your voice that will make a difference.”
Amid Gaza’s communication blackout, our colleague Tarneem shares this vital message.
#CeasefireNOW
🚨As a result of increasing Israeli military activity around the Al Aqsa Hospital, the only functioning hospital in
#Gaza
’s Middle Area, MAP and
@RESCUEorg
’s Emergency Medical Team has been forced to withdraw and cease activities.
MAP and
@RESCUEorg
have deployed our first Emergency Medical Team (EMT) of medical experts to Gaza to help local doctors treat Palestinian civilians wounded by Israel's bombardment.
Your support has been vital in helping make this possible.
Read more→
Messages from Gaza
Our colleague Rasha Al Moghany in Gaza along with our MAP staff and health workers continue to put themselves in harms way to help the people on the ground as the Israeli bombardments continue for the 17th day.
#CeasefireNOW
#Gaza
Diplomacy has failed to end Israel’s siege of food and fuel in
#Gaza
. Civilians are suffering as a result, but so too is the UK’s reputation as custodian of UN Security Council resolution 2417, which forbids the use of starvation as a weapon of war.
Over 2,000 children have been killed in
#Gaza
.
Over 5,000 children have been maimed.
And over 800 children are believed to remain dead under the rubble.
🚨 We need a
#ceasefireNOW
.
MAP CEO
@Melanie_Ward
spoke to
@BBCNews
about why we're holding a vigil in London today 👇
🚨Amid reports that Israeli forces have entered the Shifa Hospital, MAP is gravely concerned for the welfare of the 500 staff, 600 patients and thousands of displaced people believed to still be inside and demands their protection.
🚨 Deeply disturbing news from our
#Gaza
team who report a Ministry of Health building & Al Remal clinic have been targeted by Israeli airstrikes. COVID-19 lab testing has been suspended, and staff from the
#COVID19
hotline injured. Residential buildings are still being targeted.
90% of children under the age of two in Gaza will go to bed hungry tonight.
In the north, one in six is acutely malnourished.
We must have a
#CeasefireNow
, or this situation will only continue to worsen – with grave consequences for a generation of children. Please RT.
Here are highlights from the vigil in
#Westminster
this morning organised by
@MedicalAidPal
- for the children of
#Gaza
. 💔
The death toll now stands at 5,791 people, with 2,360 being children. Inna lilaahi wa inna ilayhi raji'un. 🤲🏽
Our colleagues in
#Gaza
are frightened. Incredibly, some are still out distributing the supplies we have been able to procure locally amid the bombardment.
They need your help. The time to act is now.
Please give a donation to our emergency appeal:
Thanks to donations from our supporters, MAP remains one of the last organisations still working in
#Gaza
We're on the ground right now helping get daily hot meals to 3,000 people displaced from their homes. Please donate now to help us keep up our efforts
“I am urging you to act as an advocate – to speak up, to protect, to respect the healthcare institutions, the staff, the patients and the people of Gaza”
Dr Roddy O’Kane is a consultant paediatric neurosurgeon and MAP volunteer who's worked with us in
#Gaza
many times. Watch now
For women in Gaza this
#InternationalWomensDay
, Israel’s military bombardment has made life devastatingly hard.
🟣 20k+ women and children killed
🟣 Miscarriages up 300%
🟣 80% of mothers skipping meals to feed children
RT if you stand in solidarity with women in Gaza.
🚨Medical staff at the Kuwaiti Hospital in Rafah have received an evacuation order from Israeli forces.
If the hospital is forced out of action, this could mean the complete collapse of the limited healthcare system in Rafah.
Take action:
Gaza's hospitals are now in danger of imminent, full-scale military attacks. Where is the red line?
Palestinian civilians and healthcare must be protected, and Israel must cease its attacks on hospitals now. Please stand with us and everyone in Gaza by demanding a
#CeasefireNOW
Update from Gaza:
🚨Almost 18,000 Palestinians have now been killed during Israel’s assault, reports the Palestinian MoH
🚨Israeli forces attacked multiple health facilities over the weekend
🚨On 9 December, two medical staff were killed while on duty inside Al Awda Hospital
🚨 West Bank emergency update
🔴 115 Palestinians, including 27 children have been killed by Israeli forces and settlers more than 1,653 injured
🔴Israel detained around 1,500 Palestinians across the West Bank
We are deeply concerned by today's attacks on the
@PalestineRCS
headquarters in
#Gaza
. Healthcare, humanitarian workers and displaced civilians are
#NotATarget
and must be protected.
🚨The initial moments of the occupation's bombardment of the PRCS’s headquarters in
#KhanYounis
twice today, resulted in five casualties and three injuries among the displaced individuals who sought refuge in the PRCS 's premises and the nearby Al-Amal Hospital, considering it a
More healthcare workers have been killed during Israel's military bombardment in
#Gaza
over the last six months, than were killed in all conflicts globally in 2021 and 2022 combined.
Healthcare workers are
#NotATarget
🔴 Share to show your support for Gaza's healthcare workers.