Maher Shamiyeh, the assistant undersecretary for Gaza’s Health Ministry, said that al-Shifa Hospital had been reduced to administering first aid and clinal care. “Al-Shifa Medical Complex used to represent 40 to 50 percent of the total capacity of operations for the health ministry [before the war], but now it does not have electricity and is filled with thousands of displaced people,” Shamiyeh said. The majority of medical staff are in southern Gaza now, and cannot come back to Gaza City or northern Gaza because the Israeli army prevents anyone from doing so, he said.
