Gaza’s overwhelmed hospitals receive a new wave of wounded.

During a call for assistance, a guy was seen at Nasser Hospital in southern Gaza, where he was holding a kid who had a bloody scalp.

Under the cover of a blanket, there was another young child who had a cut on his cheek and tears in his eyes. A third individual, with his face drenched in blood, awaited medical attention.

The health ministry of Gaza said that Israeli air attacks had already resulted in the deaths of 54 people within a few hours of the expiration of a cease-fire agreement that had been in place for a week between Israel and the Palestinian party Hamas, which exercises control over Gaza.

In footage obtained by Reuters from Nasser Hospital, which is the second-biggest hospital in the Gaza Strip, a continual stream of injured patients was being taken in. In contrast, other individuals sobbed outside next to the corpses of loved ones who had been murdered in attacks.

The United Nations and several aid organizations have reported that just a tiny percentage of the health facilities in the destroyed enclave are still operational, and even those that are operational are not in a position to deal with a new wave of deaths.

“Hospitals across Gaza lack the basic supplies, staff, and fuel to deliver primary health care at the scale needed, let alone safely treat urgent cases,” said António Guterres, the Secretary-General of the United Nations, on Thursday.

Before beginning its bombing and ground invasion of Gaza in retaliation for the murderous rampage by Hamas on October 7, Israel claimed that gunmen had killed 1,200 people and taken 240 hostages. Gaza had a population of 2.3 million people at the time.

It has been proven that more than 15,000 Gazans have been killed, and many more are missing and believed to be buried beneath debris, according to Palestinian health authorities that the United Nations considers reliable. According to the United Nations, as many as eighty percent of the people may have been forced out of their homes.

Dr. Richard Peeperkorn, a representative of the World Health Organization in Gaza, claimed that the ongoing hostilities had crippled Gaza’s health system.

The statement was made to the press over a video hookup. “It cannot afford to lose any more hospitals or hospital beds,” he said. “We are extremely concerned about the resumption of violence.”

At the same briefing, a senior emergency official with the World Health Organization named Rob Holden stated that he had gone to Al Ahli Hospital in Gaza City on Friday morning.

“The only way to describe it is like a horror movie when you walk in there,” he commented, noting that there were also “patients on the floor with the most traumatic injuries that you can imagine.”

Humanitarian officials have stated that fuel is of the utmost importance to maintain the functionality of hospitals, and the United Nations branded the ongoing violence as “catastrophic” on Friday.

On Friday, Israel started its military assault, which resulted in the suspension of the entry of relief and fuel trucks for Gaza at the Rafah border in Egypt. The amount of aid that was sent had increased during the truce; nevertheless, officials from the relief organization stated that it was still a significant amount less than what was required.