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Medical staff sewed up a patient’s head wound using a flashlight from a mobile phone amid power cuts at north Gaza’s Indonesia hospital. Israeli tanks took up positions at the gates of Gaza City’s main hospital, the primary target in their battle to seize control of the northern half of the Gaza Strip, where medics said patients including newborns were dying for lack of fuel.   Gaza health ministry spokesperson Ashraf Al-Qidra, who was inside Al Shifa hospital, said 32 patients had died in the past three days, including three newborn babies, as a result of the siege of the hospital and lack of power.   At least 650 patients were still inside, desperate to be evacuated to another medical facility by the Red Cross or some other neutral agency. Israel says the hospital sits atop tunnels housing a headquarters for Hamas fighters using patients as shields, which Hamas denies.   Israel launched its campaign last month to annihilate Hamas, the militant group which runs the Gaza Strip, after H...

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