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A look at the devastation in Gaza's Shifa Hospital after 22 months of war

(6 Aug 2025) FOR CLEAN VERSION SEE STORY NUMBER: 4595033 RESTRICTION SUMMARY: ASSOCIATED PRESS Gaza City - 4 July 2025 1. Various of destroyed Al-Shifa Hospital buildings 2. Dr. Jamal Salha, a neurologist, entering building crowded with wounded and patients ++PART OVERLAID BY SHOT 1++ UPSOUND (Arabic): ”We have 200 beds in the hospital, including the beds in this building, the beds here, and the beds in the tent. Of course, all of this affects the patients, especially since the hospital is full of patients and displaced people. There are a lot of flies here and the rate of infections is high. The situation is very difficult.” 3. Patients lying in beds 4. Various of Dr. Salha bandaging a patient's head 5. Various of Dr. Salha checking over a child suffering from an enlarged brain 6. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Dr. Jamal Salha, neurologist: ++PART OVERLAID BY SHOTS 4, 5++ "Our numbers are very small, and we deal with a large number of cases. It's very exhausting for us. At the beginning of the war, I worked every day, but after the war stopped and then resumed, thank God, it became less frequent, and I work every other day. However, our numbers are small. We are two doctors, present every day, visiting patients every day from 8.00am to 1.00am. The number of cases in the department is very large.” 7. Dr. Salha performing surgery on a head injury 8. Various of patients and wounded on beds and ground in the corridors of Al-Shifa Hospital 9. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Dr. Jamal Salha, neurologist: ++OVERLAID BY SHOT 8++ "In the case of an attack, if someone is injured in the head, we often cannot diagnose the injury without a CT scan. The CT machine is not available in the hospital. This is a huge challenge. 10. Various of Dr. Salha checking patient lying on the ground in the hospital corridor 11. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Dr. Jamal Salha, neurologist: ++PART OVERLAID BY SHOTS 10, 12++ “These are our memories. All of them were destroyed. The occupation destroyed everything. But thank God, I began at Shifa Hospital, and here I am again in Shifa after an absence of 450 days (because he was displaced to central Gaza Strip).” 12. Various of destroyed Al-Shifa Hospital buildings 13. Dr. Salha looking at destroyed buildings of Al-Shifa Hospital STORYLINE: Doctors have a term for the state of the recovery rooms of Gaza’s Shifa hospital: A highly uncontrolled environment. Nothing is sterilized. Doctors wash instruments with soap. Infections are rampant. The stench of waste and accumulated filth is overwhelming. And flies are everywhere. Patients moan in pain on metal beds that line the corridors. There are no painkillers. With little fuel, there’s no electricity and no ventilation. Anxious relatives fan bedridden loved ones with cardboard in the searing heat. During 22 months of Israel’s campaign in Gaza, the Shifa Medical Complex has been left devastated by frequent bombings, two Israeli raids and long blockades. Inside what remains, an exhausted staff with almost nothing still works to save lives. Dr. Jamal Salha returned in January to Shifa, months after being forcibly displaced to the south. The hospital was a shell of its former self. “These are our memories. All of them were destroyed. The occupation destroyed everything," said Salha, a 27-year-old neurosurgeon. Like hundreds of Palestinian doctors, it was at Shifa that he trained and decided on his career. "I began at Shifa Hospital, and here I am again in Shifa after an absence of 450 days (because he was displaced to central Gaza strip)," he said. Find out more about AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/HowWeWork Twitter:   / ap_archive   Facebook:   / aparchives   ​​ Instagram:   / apnews   You can license this story through AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/metadata/you...