Why is Al-Shifa hospital in Gaza surrounded by Israeli tanks?

He said the tense situation around the hospital remains the same and that during the night he has heard several explosions and exchanges of fire.

He also told me that tanks are surrounding the hospital from all sides and that access inside and outside the hospital is impossible.

Moving from building to building inside the hospital complex is also a major danger, as he described me.

He said people died in the hospital because there is no electricity, no water, and no enough medicine.

Yesterday, Mark Regev, a senior adviser to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, said an Israeli Army attempt to send 300 liters of fuel to Scife on Sunday, had failed because Hamas had refused to accept -- something Hamas denies.

My contact within the hospital said it would only take half an hour and that it needed a sustainable solution. He said it takes at least 10,000 liters of fuel a day for this hospital.

Israel has accused Hamas of having a control and control centre in Schiffa- which the group denies.

I was in the hospital-- there I was born, there was my son born, in the last two months of my mother's life, she was inside the kidney dialysis center and I visited her every day.

It's very hard to verify what's down there. With my own eyes, I have not seen any military capacity within the hospital building.