Doctors in central Gaza’s Al-Aqsa Hospital are sounding the alarm about a power outage that is putting the lives of their most vulnerable patients in peril.

“This situation is threatening the lives of many patients and newborns,” one doctor in the facility told Al Jazeera. “We’re trying to work with what we have but we will have to stop working completely because we don’t have any electricity.

“There’s a complete outage. How can we treat the patients?” she asked.

Another of the few remaining doctors in the facility said she is working with the flash on her phone to urgently treat vulnerable patients, including more than a dozen babies.

“We are trying to manage as best we can, even just to find some blankets for the children and babies. They suffer from malnutrition. They can easily get sick, even die, God forbid,” the doctor told Al Jazeera.