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A power blackout across the Gaza Strip is likely to put the lives of newborns and medical patients at risk, while Israel continues to strike all corners of the territory repeatedly as the war enters its 99th day. “This situation is threatening the lives of many patients and newborns,” one doctor in Deir al-Balah’s Al-Aqsa Hospital told Qatar’s 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.” The territory is no stranger to Israeli-imposed telecommunications and power outages, which have occurred frequently a…