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Severe electricity shortages in Gaza leave residents with as little as six hours of power a day, threatening essential services at Shifa hospital, especially for patients who depend on kidney dialysis.

Palestinian electricity company workers inspect power installations in the town of Rafah, in the southern Gaza Strip on June 25, 2019. - Israel blocked fuel deliveries to the Gaza Strip today, citing new incendiary balloons from the Palestinian enclave.
Lacking natural resources, the Gaza Strip suffers from a chronic shortage of water, electricity and petrol. More than two-thirds of the population depends on humanitarian aid. (Photo by SAID KHATIB / AFP) (Photo credit should read SAID KHATIB/AFP via

Power crisis threatens already fragile situation in Gaza

Rasha Abou Jalal

Rasha Abou Jalal

In Gaza City, reporting on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict

A Palestinian man awaits treatment by dialysis inside the kidney section at al-Shifa hospital in Gaza October 27, 2008. The nearly empty corridors of Gaza's main Shifa Hospital testified to the ailing state of health care in the Hamas-controlled territory. A crisis-level shortage of drugs and spare parts for medical equipment and a two-month-old strike by health care workers have combined to add more misery to the lives of the 1.5 million inhabitants of the impoverished Gaza Strip. REUTERS/Suhaib Salem (GAZ

Gaza Hospitals Suffering Due To Border Closure with Egypt

Rasha Abou Jalal

Rasha Abou Jalal

In Gaza City, reporting on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict

French surgeon Christopher Bulstrode (2nd L) operates on a Palestinian patient as he trains Palestinian doctors in surgical procedures at the Nasser hospital in Khan Younis in the southern Gaza Strip December 15, 2009. Bulstrode arrived in Gaza on Monday for a one-week training session, aiming at upgrading the knowledge of orthopedic surgeons from Gaza in the field of war and trauma orthopedic medicine. REUTERS/Suhaib Salem (GAZA - Tags: HEALTH) - RTXRV42

Gaza Hospital Performs Strip's First Transplant

Rami Almeghari

Japan comes to the rescue of Gaza's hospitals

Ahmad Melhem

In Ramallah, reporting on politics