(1 Jul 2025)
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Gaza City, Gaza Strip – 1 July 2025
1. Tracking of patient in wheelchair arriving at dialysis department in Shifa Hospital
2. Various of patients waiting
3. Close of machine
4. Wide of patients waiting
5. Various of Noura, 17-year-old, kidney dialysis patient, waiting
6. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Noura, (last name not provided), 17, Kidney dialysis patient:
"I need dialysis. Due to the lack of solar power and water, the dialysis process has stopped. Without dialysis, the levels of fluids and toxins (in our blood) increase. We suffocate, we can’t sleep, we lose our appetite, we can’t move. It’s very difficult."
7. Mid of Fatima Hmaid, 26-year-old, Kidney dialysis patient, waiting in hospital
8. Wide of patients waiting
9. Mid of switched-off dialysis machine during power cut due to fuel shortage
10. Various of patients waiting
11. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Fatima Hmaid, 26, Kidney dialysis patient:
"We also want to be cared for. We are sick. We need healthcare. We need psychological care. We need care in every way. You see the situation. We are exhausted — psychologically, physically, medically and nutritionally. I swear to God, there is no food. You see the situation in Gaza."
12. Various of patients waiting
13. Various of Mohammad Abu Salmiya, the director of Shifa Hospital accompanying a team for the UN (WHO) inside hospital
14. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Mohammad Abu Salmiya, director of Shifa Hospital:
"Right now, we are facing a huge fuel shortage that lasts only a few hours. We have shut down the dialysis department, as you see. More than 350 kidney patients are suffering because they can’t receive dialysis. We’ve reserved the limited fuel we have for the intensive care unit and the operating room, because the ICU can’t function without electricity, not even for a single minute."
15. Various of patients waiting outside hospital
16. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Mohammad Abu Salmiya, director of Shifa Hospital:
"We are facing critical hours. If we don’t receive the necessary fuel in the coming hours, we’ll be forced to shut down other departments, sentencing 13 patients in intensive care to certain death. Dozens of wounded people, brought in by Israeli bombings and in need of surgery, will also die. In the nursery at Al-Helo Hospital, 17 premature babies face certain death. These are decisive, crucial hours. As I speak, I left the dialysis ward where patients are crying and suffering. This is a humanitarian cry to the entire world. Enough is enough — what’s happening in the Gaza Strip must stop."
17 Mid patients waiting outside hospital
18. Exterior of Shifa Hospital
STORYLINE:
The Shifa Hospital in Gaza City suspended services at the dialysis unit amid a shortage of fuel required to operate power generators, the Health Ministry announced on Tuesday.
In a statement, the ministry said the hospital, the main medical facility in the northern half of the strip, was forced to limit its services to the intensive care unit, warning that this would last for a few hours.
It called for international agencies to press Israel to quickly allow the delivery of fuel to Shifa and other overwhelmed hospitals across Gaza.
"We are facing critical hours. If we don’t receive the necessary fuel in the coming hours, we’ll be forced to shut down other departments, sentencing 13 patients in intensive care to certain death," said Mohammad Abu Salmiya, the director of the facility.
"Patients are crying and suffering. This is a humanitarian cry to the entire world. Enough is enough," he added.
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