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Gaza health sector edging closer to catastrophe under Israeli siege

Saturday, 19 January 2019 6:05 PM [ Last Update: Saturday, 19 January 2019 6:10 PM ]

Beit Hanoun hospital in the northern Gaza Strip closes activities on January 29, 2018 after it ran out of fuel. (Photo by AFP)

Ashraf Shannon
PRESS TV, Gaza

Prolonged power outages are taking their toll on hospitals in the Gaza Strip bringing the blockaded coastal enclave closer to a humanitarian disaster. Israeli’s blockade has caused a sharp decline in basic living standards for Palestinians in the Gaza Strip since 2007. Our Gaza correspondent Ashraf Shannon has more in this report.

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