Gaza hospital stops admitting casualties
Newshour
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4.4 • 984 Ratings
🗓️ 11 July 2025
⏱️ 44 minutes
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Summary
Gaza's largest remaining hospital, the Nasser Hospital in the southern city of Khan Younis, has stopped admitting casualties because of Israeli troops operating nearby. We speak to a doctor who is an emergency physician there.
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(Photo: Medical personnel work in an operating room at Nasser Hospital, which Gaza's health ministry says is at risk of shutting down due to the Israeli blockade of fuel, as the ongoing shortage has already forced the facility to reduce its capacity. Credit: Reuters)
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to NewsHour. It's coming to you live from the BBC World Service Studios in central London. |
| 0:09.6 | I'm Tim Franks. And we're beginning in Gaza with the enclave's largest functioning medical facility in a perilous state. |
| 0:17.6 | It's the NASA Hospital in the southern city of Khan-Unis. |
| 0:22.2 | And we started getting reports last night, Thursday night, Gaza time, that the hospital had stopped admitting casualties and |
| 0:28.0 | new patients as an Israeli ground offensive drew closer. But doctors at NASA have now halted all |
| 0:35.4 | admissions amid a widening Israeli ground offensive |
| 0:38.8 | that seen troops approach to within 200 metres of the hospital. |
| 0:43.3 | One doctor posted this video of the scene inside the neonatal unit |
| 0:47.8 | as emergency alarms sounded after generators shut down. |
| 0:51.9 | He said it risk cutting power to the neonatal incubators. |
| 0:57.4 | We need that electricity as soon as possible for the incubators, for walking, for the mechanical |
| 1:06.1 | ventilation. This is one of the most serious complications of the electricity and lack of fuel in Gaza and in also medical complex nowadays. |
| 1:17.3 | A short while ago we managed to get through to the hospital and speak to Dr. Sabah al-Azma, an emergency physician there. |
| 1:24.4 | This started two days ago, like the night before the last night. |
| 1:28.5 | And what happened is exactly that during the working at Nasr Hospital, |
| 1:33.2 | many tanks and bulldozers started to get closer. |
| 1:38.6 | We didn't get any worn. |
| 1:40.7 | And for a sudden, these tanks, of course, with shooting all over around, even we have casualties from the hospital yards happen, from the drones and the tanks. |
| 1:51.4 | And also, there were so many shillings around the hospital. |
| 1:55.0 | We didn't understand what's going on because we haven't received any call from the IDF if they wants us to evacuate or not. |
| 2:03.6 | Anyhow, we couldn't even evacuate the hospital because this is the only hospital functioning |
| 2:09.6 | hospital in the south now with around 700,000 displaced people around the hospital who are |
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