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PHOTO ESSAY: Gaza’s main hospital barely functions after Israeli raids and 21 months of war

GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip (AP) — Shifa Hospital was once the cornerstone of the health system in the Gaza Strip. Now, after 21 months of war and two major Israeli raids, it barely functions.

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PHOTO ESSAY: Gaza's main hospital barely functions after Israeli raids and 21 months of war

Dr. Abeer Al-Gharbawi, left, performs surgery under the illumination of a battery-powered light during a power outage at Shifa Hospital in Gaza City, Friday, July 4, 2025. (AP Photo/Jehad Alshrafi)


GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip (AP) — Shifa Hospital was once the cornerstone of the health system in the Gaza Strip. Now, after 21 months of war and two major Israeli raids, it barely functions.

Its corridors are filled with people wounded in Israeli airstrikes, its morgue packed with bodies. Doctors and nurses perform surgeries in squalid conditions, often by the light of cellphones. Patients waiting outside for dialysis treatment sit beside the rubble of a bombed-out hospital wing.

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