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Al Jazeera Staff

Blackout in Gaza’s Al-Aqsa Hospital as fuel runs out, babies at high risk

Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital [Abdelhakim Abu Riash/Al Jazeera]

A total blackout at the Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital in central Gaza, one of the last functioning medical facilities in the enclave, has put the lives of its most vulnerable patients at risk with no fuel left to power generators and as the Israeli military was attacking areas nearby.

“We’re trying to work with what we have. But we will have to stop working completely, because we don’t have any electricity,” one doctor at the hospital told Al Jazeera. “There’s a complete outage so how can we treat the patients?”

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