The Israel Defense Forces says it supplied 300 liters of fuel for “urgent medical purposes” at Shifa Hospital in Gaza City, but Hamas prevented the medical center from receiving it.

Early this morning, troops placed the jerrycans near the hospital, as had been coordinated in advance with officials at Shifa.

  • NuXCOM_90Percent@lemmy.zip
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    8 months ago

    I mean… you generally want refrigerators for a lot of medicine (and I assume blood?).

    But I also assume those are already fucked from the past few weeks.

    You aren’t going to be running at full capacity without providing power to the entire grid which has obvious implications with a war. But keeping the essential equipment running to keep kids and the like alive? I am not convinced they would be able to help everyone, but it would go a long way and be something that can be delivered with minimal risk of attacks en route and storage issues.

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      8 months ago

      I never said the fuel is enough help everyone in the hospital. Far from it.

      It is enough to power a certain number of ICU beds, for a few days, that would otherwise not be operational. That’s not much, but it’s not nothing.