Middle East leaders hold emergency summit amid strikes on Gaza hospital
by Ruth Michaelson from World news | The Guardian on (#6G9XS)
Al-Shifa complex, where thousands of displaced people are sheltering, is besieged' and totally cut off', says hospital chief
Leaders from across the Middle East and surrounding region are meeting in Saudi Arabia for an emergency summit on Gaza, as the enclave's largest hospital remains tightly encircled by Israeli forces, without power, and with strikes on everything moving inside the complex", according to staff trapped inside.
We are totally cut off from the whole world, we are minutes away from imminent death," Mohammad abu Salmiya, the head of Dar al-Shifa hospital in Gaza City, told Al Jazeera.
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