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DUBAI (Reuters) - The only cancer treatment hospital in the Gaza Strip has gone out of service after it ran out of fuel, health officials said on Wednesday. The director of the Turkish-Palestinian Friendship hospital told a press conference aired by Al-Jazeera TV that the hospital, which mainly treats cancer patients, had used up its fuel and was now out of service. "We tell the world don't leave cancer patients to a certain death due to the hospital being out of service," the director, Subhi Skaik, added. "The lives of 70 cancer patients inside the hospital are seriously threatened," she said in a statement. The death toll in Gaza reached 8,796 Palestinians, including 3,648 children, on Wednesday, according to the health ministry in the Hamas-controlled enclave.
Persons: Subhi, Mai al, Kaila, Nayera Abdallah, William Maclean Organizations: Reuters, Al, Palestinian Health Locations: DUBAI, Gaza, Turkish, Palestinian, Israel
REUTERS/Mohammed Salem/File Photo Acquire Licensing RightsDUBAI, Nov 1 (Reuters) - The only cancer treatment hospital in the Gaza Strip has gone out of service after it ran out of fuel, health officials said on Wednesday. The director of the Turkish-Palestinian Friendship hospital told a press conference aired by Al-Jazeera TV that the hospital, which mainly treats cancer patients, had used up its fuel and was now out of service. "We tell the world don't leave cancer patients to a certain death due to the hospital being out of service," the director, Subhi Skaik, added. "The lives of 70 cancer patients inside the hospital are seriously threatened," she said in a statement. The death toll in Gaza reached 8,796 Palestinians, including 3,648 children, on Wednesday, according to the health ministry in the Hamas-controlled enclave.
Persons: Mohammed Salem, Subhi, Mai al, Kaila, Nayera Abdallah, William Maclean Organizations: REUTERS, Rights, Al, Palestinian Health, Thomson Locations: Gaza, Rights DUBAI, Turkish, Palestinian, Israel
The only cancer-treating hospital in Gaza was forced to halt services after it ran out of fuel. Thousands of cancer patients are at risk after the hospital's closing and continuing airstrikes. AdvertisementAdvertisementThe only hospital treating cancer in the Gaza Strip has run out of fuel and cannot continue operating amid Israeli supply blockades. "We tell the world: don't leave cancer patients to a certain death due to the hospital being out of service," Skaik said during the press conference. AdvertisementAdvertisement"The lives of 70 cancer patients inside the hospital are seriously threatened," al-Kaila said in a statement, per Reuters.
Persons: , Subhi Skaik, Skaik, Mai, Kaila, John Kirby, Bernie Sanders, Sanders Organizations: Service, Palestinian Friendship Hospital, Reuters, Palestinian Health, Hamas, Defense, Children, Israel, White House Locations: Gaza, Turkish, Al Jazeera, Israel, Palestine, White, American
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