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Israeli siege forces Gaza’s only cancer hospital to shut amid fuel shortage

A medical worker assists a Palestinian, who was wounded in Israeli strikes in Khan Younis, in the southern Gaza Strip on October 26, 2023 [File: Ibraheem Abu Mustafa/Reuters]

Palestinian health authorities have said that the only hospital offering cancer treatment in the Gaza Strip has gone out of service after it ran out of fuel amid Israel’s continuing blockade of the territory.

The Israeli siege on Gaza has cut off supplies of fuel and heavily restricted access to food, water and electricity, while the Israeli military continues to bombard the Strip, where hospitals are filled with the dying and wounded and shortages have put huge pressure on medical workers.

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