Patients and staff at Al-Shifa Hospital in Gaza, which is at the heart of fighting between the Israeli Armed Forces (IDF) and Hamas, find themselves in increasingly worse positions.
Palestinian officials say a newborn baby has died and dozens more are at risk because the hospital, the largest in the Gaza Strip, has been left without electricity.
Meanwhile, Israeli troops are holed up in the hospital, which Israel says is a Hamas command center. Fighting, Sky News adds, near the hospital and in other areas of northern Gaza has intensified and supplies have run out.
A spokesman for the Palestinian Ministry of Health in Gaza said a newborn baby could not survive after the fuel that powered the hospital's equipment ran out.
Subsequently, all operations at the building were suspended.
According to the director general of Gaza's hospitals, dozens more babies are at risk.
"Now there are 39 babies in the neonatal intensive care unit, one of them died a few minutes ago and the rest are fighting with death," said Dr. Mohamed Zakout.
He further added: "There are 40 injured in intensive care, we lost one of them in the first hour of darkness. No one can enter or leave the hospital, so the injured outside the hospital will not find a place to to be treated."
Israel, for its part, believes that Hamas uses the patients and personnel as shields for its facilities that are deep below the surface of the earth. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has also stated that responsibility for any harm to civilians in Gaza falls on Hamas. (A2 Televizion)
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