The Ministry of Health of the Palestinian Authority confirmed late this Saturday the delivery of up to 800 bags of blood to the south of the Gaza Strip, in an action carried out in collaboration with the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) and the Rahmah Foundation.
“The units of blood that were delivered are part of the units donated by our people in the northern governorates to our people in the southern governorates,” Palestinian health authorities have declared from Ramallah, in the West Bank.
The successful shipment has been made from the laboratories of the aforementioned town in the occupied Palestinian territories to the south of the Gaza Strip, and is part of the second round of the blood donation campaign ‘Our blood is one’, according to the Palestinian news agency WAFA.
“We are making great efforts 24 hours a day to meet the health needs of our people in the southern governorates, in cooperation and partnership with international partner institutions and various health organizations,” said the head of Health of the Palestinian Authority, Majed Abu Ramadan.
The minister has also asked the international community to “increase pressure” on the Government of Israel to stop “its deliberate attack on treatment centers” in the Gaza Strip and put an end to “the escalation of aggression (. ..) against the Palestinian people”.
The World Health Organization (WHO) denounced this Friday that the Israeli authorities have prevented up to seven of its missions in the Palestinian enclave, at a time when “northern Gaza now has almost no health services.”
For their part, the Gazan authorities, controlled by the Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas), have confirmed these facts, maintaining that Israel “is trying to put the hospitals in the north (of Gaza) out of service, which threatens the lives of 400,000 people”.
