Dr Mohammed Obeid,
MSF Surgeon currently in Al-Shifa hospital, Gaza
The situation now is very bad.
We don't have a connection, there is no Internet. Sometimes we have cellphones for some reason.
We're on the fourth floor, there's a sniper who attacked four patients inside the hospital.
One of them has a gunshot wound directly in his neck, and he is a quadriplegic [patient], and the other one [was shot] in the abdomen.
Some of the people who go outside the hospital, they want to go to the South.
They bombed them, they bombed their family.
In Al-Shifa hospital today, since this morning, there is no electricity, actually there is no water, there is no food. Our team is exhausted.
We have two neonate patients who died, because the incubator is not working, because there is no electricity.
Also we have an adult patient in the ICU [intensive care unit], he died because the ventilator shut down, because there is no electricity.
We can see the smoke around the hospital. They [Israel military] hit everything around the hospital. And they hit the hospital many times.
The situation, as I said before, is very bad. We are nearly sure that we are alone now. No one hears us.
We want someone to give us the guarantee that they can evacuate the patients.
Because we have about 600 inpatients who need medical care and who need to evacuate.
The problem is to be sure that we can evacuate the neonatal patients because we have about 37 to 40 premature babies.
We have about 17 other patients in the ICU, and we have about 600 postoperative admitted patients which need medical care. So the situation is very bad. We need help. No one hears us.
MSF urgently reiterates its calls to stop the attacks against hospitals, for an immediate ceasefire and for the protection of medical facilities, medical staff and patients, and to allow people who wish to leave the hospitals to do so.