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Israel-Gaza live updates: 3 premature babies die at Al-Shifa Hospital, doctor says
The hospital has been treating thousands of wounded people.
Thousands of people have died and thousands more have been injured since the militant group Hamas launched an unprecedented surprise attack on Israel on Oct. 7 and Israel retaliated with a bombing campaign and total siege of the neighboring Gaza Strip, leaving the region on the verge of all-out war.
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What we know about the conflict
The latest outbreak of war between Israel and Hamas, the Palestinian militant group that governs the Gaza Strip, has passed the four-month mark.
In the Gaza Strip, at least 30,228 people have been killed and 71,377 others have been wounded by Israeli forces since Oct. 7, according to Gaza's Hamas-controlled Ministry of Health.
In Israel, at least 1,200 people have been killed and 6,900 others have been injured by Hamas and other Palestinian militants since Oct. 7, according to the Israel Defense Forces.
There has also been a surge in violence in the Israeli-occupied West Bank. Israeli forces have killed at least 395 people in the territory since Oct. 7, according to the Palestinian Ministry of Health.
The ongoing war began after Hamas-led militants launched an unprecedented incursion into southern Israel from neighboring Gaza via land, sea and air. Scores of people were killed while more than 200 others were taken hostage, according to Israeli authorities. The Israeli military subsequently launched retaliatory airstrikes followed by a ground invasion of Gaza, a 140-square-mile territory where more than 2 million Palestinians have lived under a blockade imposed by Israel and supported by Egypt since Hamas came to power in 2007. Gaza, unlike Israel, has no air raid sirens or bomb shelters.
WHO says it's lost communication with contacts in Al-Shifa Hospital in Gaza
The World Health Organization announced early Sunday morning that it had lost communication with its contacts in Al-Shifa Hospital in northern Gaza.
Al-Shifa Hospital, the largest medical complex in Gaza, has been under attack in the last 48 hours, according to WHO.
The last report WHO says it received from staff within the hospital said Al-Shifa was surrounded by tanks and there was a "lack of clean water and risk of the last remaining critical functions, including ICUs, ventilators and incubators, soon shutting down due to lack of fuel."
Surgeon at Al Shifa hospital gives update
Dr. Ahmed Mokhallalati, the chief plastic surgeon at Al Shifa hospital in Gaza, told ABC News that he is unwilling to leave his scores of burn patients and stayed behind with the some 2,000 people left in the hospital complex and about 500 patients.
Mokhallalati said the hospital is virtually cut off because no one can get in -- they only received two or three patients on Saturday.
But despite having hundreds of burn patients, Mokhallalati doesn’t have much to do because they have only enough power for a single outlet to work. They use it in a clinic which has become the only operating room, because the real ORs require more power.
Mokhallalati said only about 15-20% of the hospital staff remain.
He also said there are some 40 infants in the neonatal units and 60 or so patients on ventilators, who he and the hospital administrators say will die once the generator fuel runs out.
The Israeli military’s civil coordinator said in a video statement Saturday that the eastern exit to the hospital is open, and that people are free to leave. But the images the Israeli military released from inside Gaza show that much of Gaza City and it’s outlying neighborhoods are flattened.
-ABC News' Matt Gutman and Sohel Uddin
Hezbollah claims responsibility for 2 attacks on Israel
Hezbollah issued two statements claiming two attacks on Israel amid daily clashes between Hezbollah and Israel forces along Lebanon’s southern border.
For the first time since the Oct. 7 Hamas attacks, the Israel Defense Forces said it carried-out a strike 40 km past its northern border into Lebanon, hitting a truck in Zahrani.
For now, this is contained within the the Blue Line, the UN-defined demarcation line between the two countries. As the fighting continues between Hamas and Israel and casualties mount up, the potential for escalation increases.
All of this is happening ahead of the commemoration of Hezbollah’s Martyr Day and another speech by Hezbollah Secretary General Hassan Nasrullah, his second of the conflict.
ICRC chief surgeon in Gaza: 'Relentless' stream of burn victims
Dr. Tom Potokar, the International Committee of the Red Cross' chief surgeon who is currently working in the European Gaza Hospital, detailed the challenges they are facing in a phone interview with ABC News Live on Friday.
Potokar, who specializes in burn treatments, said they have seen "many, many" burn cases, adding that the number of burn patients is "relentless" and "not slowing down at all." The patients with burn injuries have been all ages, with the youngest they've seen just 4 months old, he said.
"A lot of them have burns involving the face as well, and the limbs," Potokar said. "These could be quite deep burns, as I say, so will lead to significant scarring potentially in the future if they actually survive."
Potokar, who has been a war surgeon in Gaza before, said the damage is "far, far" worse and in a "completely different stratosphere from how I've ever come across it before."
He said the way they are treating burns is "not ideal" under the current circumstances due to limited medical supplies.
"The way we're treating burns is really stepping back 40, 50 years," he said.
-ABC News' Josh Ascher, Kelly Johnstone, Casey McShea and Michelle Stoddart
3 premature babies die at Gaza's Al-Shifa Hospital, doctor says
At least three premature babies have died at the Al-Shifa Hospital in the Gaza Strip when a missile struck nearby and shut down the medical facility's backup generator, according to a doctor working at the hospital.
Dr. Ahmed Mokhallalti, the chief plastic surgeon at the hospital, told ABC News that the babies died when the power to their incubators was cut off Friday night into Saturday morning.
Mokhallalti said all of the hospital's ventilators were back up and running Sunday, but he expressed fear that more people would die at the hospital due to the relentless bombing.
Hospital officials said two patients in the hospital's intensive care unit also died on Sunday due to complications caused by the shelling.
The international humanitarian group Doctors Without Borders has made repeated calls for the shelling of hospitals in Gaza to cease.
"We are nearly sure that we are alone now. No one hears us," Dr. Mohammed Obeid of Doctors Without Borders said in a video statement from the Al-Shifa Hospital on Saturday.
Obeid said there are about 600 patients at the hospital who need medical care and need to be evacuated.
"The problem is [we need] to be sure we can evacuate the neonatal patients because we have 37 to 40 premature babies," Obeid said. "We have about 17 other patients in the ICU, and we have 600 postoperative patients who need medical care. So the situation is very bad. We need help."
-ABC News' Zoe Magee, Matt Gutman and Sami Zayara