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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
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Ruth Michaelson

Middle East leaders hold emergency summit amid siege on Gaza hospital

Gaza Middle East Hamas alShifa Mahmoud Abbas Richard Hecht Gaza City United States
A girl offers food to a woman in a wheelchair as others sit or lie on hospital beds and other walk through the ward which has a bloody footprint on the floor
Patients and displaced people inside al-Shifa hospital, where a baby has died due to a lack of oxygen supplies, accordingly to the Palestinian health ministry. Photograph: Khader Al Zanoun/AFP/Getty Images

Leaders from across the Middle East and surrounding region are meeting in Saudi Arabia for an emergency summit on Gaza, as the territory’s largest hospital remains encircled by Israeli forces, without power, and with strikes “on everything moving inside the complex”, according to staff trapped inside.

“We are totally cut off from the whole world, we are minutes away from imminent death,” Mohammad abu Salmiya, the head of Dar al-Shifa hospital in Gaza City, told Al Jazeera.

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