00:00 Israeli forces reached the gates of Gaza City's main hospital on Monday, November 13, the
00:08 primary target in their battle to seize control of the northern half of the Gaza Strip, where
00:13 medics said patients, including newborn babies, were dying for lack of fuel.
00:18 Gaza Health Ministry spokesperson Ashraf Al-Kidra, who was inside Al-Shifa Hospital, said 32
00:25 patients had died in the past three days, including three newborn babies, as a result
00:29 of the seize of the hospital and the cut-off of its power.
00:33 At least 650 patients were still inside, desperate to be evacuated to another medical facility
00:39 by the Red Cross or some other neutral agency.
00:42 Israel says the hospital sits atop tunnels housing a headquarters for Hamas fighters,
00:48 who are to blame for its plight for using patients at shields, which Hamas denies.
00:53 A surgeon at the hospital, Dr. Ahmed, said by telephone, "The tanks are in front of the
00:58 hospital.
00:59 We are under full blockade.
01:01 It's a totally civilian area.
01:03 Only hospitals, facilities, hospital patients, doctors and other civilians stay in hospital.
01:09 Someone should stop this.
01:11 They bombed the water tanks, they bombed the water wells, they bombed the oxygen pump as
01:15 well.
01:16 They bombed everything in the hospital.
01:18 So we are hardly surviving.
01:19 We tell everyone the hospital is no more a safe place for treating patients.
01:24 We are harming patients by keeping them here."
01:28 Israel has told civilians to leave and medics to send patients elsewhere.
01:32 It says it has attempted to evacuate babies from the neonatal ward and left 300 litres
01:38 of fuel to power emergency generators at the hospital entrance.
01:42 But the offers were blocked by Hamas.
01:44 "We are not going to let this happen.
01:45 We are not going to let this happen.
01:46 We are not going to let this happen.
01:47 We are not going to let this happen.
01:48 We are not going to let this happen.
01:49 We are not going to let this happen.
01:50 We are not going to let this happen.
01:51 We are not going to let this happen.
01:52 We are not going to let this happen.
01:53 We are not going to let this happen.
01:54 We are not going to let this happen.
01:55 We are not going to let this happen.
01:56 We are not going to let this happen.
01:57 We are not going to let this happen.
01:58 We are not going to let this happen.
