Nothing perhaps captured the attention of the world more than the fragile 39 premature babies at the besieged Al-Shifa hospital in Gaza as rescuers raced to save their lives as the situation at the hospital deteriorated. Without fuel, they had no critical oxygen for the infants.
Now we’re learning that the tiny babies have been evacuated to an Egyptian hospital.
“They were 39. Eight of them died,” Dr. Muhammad Zaqout, the director general of hospitals for the Palestinian Health Ministry, said on the ground on Sunday. He said two of the infants were pronounced dead before they could be rescued.
Despite efforts to evacuate the facility in recent days, around 250 patients in serious condition remain at the hospital, along with about 20 hospital workers, a spokesperson for the World Health Organization said.