As the hospital entered its seventh day of Israeli siege and fifth day without communications, the PRCS announced that the hospital was completely out of service due to lack of available fuel and power outages. Staff continued to provide the best service they could to the injured as the hospital lacked power, food, medical equipment, food, and water. Staff were forced to use traditional medical methods due to the lack of supplies. Displaced people were forced to evacuate to the south on a specific route drawn by the Israeli military. A PRCS and International Committee of the Red Cross convoy headed to the hospital to help evacuate wounded people was stopped by Israeli forces and forced to return south. The hospital was surrounded on all sides by occupation vehicles and tanks. The hospital's appeals for urgent international assistance were unanswered.