The Israel Defense Forces says it supplied 300 liters of fuel for “urgent medical purposes” at Shifa Hospital in Gaza City, but Hamas prevented the medical center from receiving it.
Early this morning, troops placed the jerrycans near the hospital, as had been coordinated in advance with officials at Shifa.
Waiting for confirmation this actually happened because the article about the premature babies dying due to lack of power asked the doctors if Israel was willing to help to which they responded that "no, Israel isn't responding to our requests at all, so we don't know".
What in the fuck would 70 gallons of fuel do for a hospital? A few hours of power? Is that supposed to be a genuine attempt at aid? Less than $200 of fuel?
I don't know the type of fuel or generator, but I found an arbitrary model that can output 1800W, enough for 9 ICU beds. Four liters of gasoline provide 5400Wh, which means they lasts 3 hrs.
So I estimate 300 liters of gasoline could have powered 9 ICU beds for over nine days.
Oh cool, wonder how many ICU beds they have to power. I wonder what other equipment they need.
In any case that's a pittance. I could've provided more personally. A country-like entity could certainly do much better, like maybe just suppling power and not bombing their power infrastructure.
I don't know how hospital power systems are designed. maybe it's possible that you could only power infant icus. I doubt it. either the hospital has power or it doesn't. at least that's what I would expect. so it's not a matter of whether you're just powering icu's. also fuck israel.
You seem to be parroting this a bit since I've run into it several times now... Do Surgeons magically know how to run electrical these days? Would you take electrical advice or knowledge from a surgeon? Did they specify what they'd be running on the generators?
I can believe that if you run 100% of everything in the hospital on it that it would run out quickly... What about just running the bare minimum? Further... Where's this magical BBC link? You've never linked it but just stated "well they said" repeatedly.
That sounds like a reasonable amount to provide, since they can provide another shipment 2h later if it actually goes to the hospital. (At full power it'd be 30 minutes, but I assume critical loads only could be powered a lot longer).
The evidence provided is weak though, and it could easily be staged. We didn't get lucky by having Hamas publicly confirm that they indeed did it, but it'd be inline with their other statements that show utter disregard for Palestinian life.
It was delivered by Jerry can, by hand from troops in the area. They coordinated the drop with the hospital and apparently Hamas. Presumably if this worked they could have arranged for a more regular supply. But that's 2 barrels of fuel. You could run quite a bit off that.
Sure, but it's such a small amount of fuel for a hospital that it makes no sense to even do it.
Should Hamas give them all the fuel they could use? Sure! But I'm wondering how vulnerable they'll be if they also have no fuel to fight back against the indiscriminate killings from the IDF...