Medical authorities in the Gaza Strip say at least four patients have lost their lives at a hospital in southern part of the territory because power to the facility was cut during an Israeli raid and oxygen supplies were subsequently restricted.

 “The generators of Nasser Hospital stopped and the power was cut off,” Gaza’s Health Ministry said in a statement on Friday, raising the alarm over the fate of six other patients in intensive care and three children in a nursery at the medical complex in the southern city of Khan Younis.

“We hold the Israeli Occupation responsible for the lives of patients and staff considering that the complex is now under its full control,” the statement added.

Additionally, reports indicate that two women have been forced to give birth in inhumane conditions at Nasser Hospital, without electricity, water, food, or heating.

Dr. Nahed Abu Taima, director of Nasser Medical Complex, has described the situation at the hospital as “catastrophic”.

“We were forced to transfer all the patients and the wounded to the hospital’s old building,” he told Al Jazeera on Friday, adding that Israeli forces were rounding up patients and civilians taking shelter in the hospital.

“Electric power was cut off from the entire medical complex. Many patients in ICUs and those on oxygen supply and also those on dialysis are left fighting for their lives since 3 am [02:00 GMT],” Taima said.

“We stand helpless, unable to provide any form of medical assistance to the patients inside the hospital or the victims flooding into the hospital every single minute.”