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Devastating Impact of Medical Shortages in Gaza Strip: Wounded Patients Dying Due to Lack of Resources and Fuel

The Palestinian Ministry of Health revealed – yesterday evening, Saturday – that a number of wounded people had died in Gaza hospitals. Due to the lack of medical capabilities and the lack of fuel.

Health Minister Mai Al-Kaila said – in a press statement on the Facebook platform – “A disaster inside hospitals in the Gaza Strip, where many wounded people are breathing their last, as a result of the lack of medical capabilities and the lack of fuel.”

Mai added that the Israeli violations against the health sector in Gaza had – as of Saturday afternoon – caused the martyrdom of more than 150 health personnel, the destruction of 27 ambulances, in addition to 16 hospitals and 32 primary health care centers being out of service.

She pointed out that the occupation’s continued bombing of the vicinity and gates of hospitals in Gaza and its north aims to force medical personnel to abandon their patients and leave the hospitals, in a complex massacre practiced against the wounded and sick, as Israel refuses to treat them inside hospitals, and also refuses to transfer them to Egypt for treatment, by targeting convoys. The wounded.

The Minister of Health appealed to the international community to bring fuel into the Gaza Strip’s hospitals. So that we do not reach a moment in which we record dozens of martyrs inside it, due to the complete cessation of service.

Last October, Israeli Defense Minister Yoav Galant decided to impose a comprehensive blockade on Gaza, saying, “No electricity, food, water, or fuel (will reach the Strip), according to what was reported by Israeli Channel 13.

Today, the Israeli army continues its 30th devastating war on Gaza, in which about 9,500 Palestinians were killed, including 3,900 children and 2,509 women, and more than 24,000 others were injured. 145 Palestinians were killed, and about 2,040 were arrested in the West Bank, according to official Palestinian sources.

More than 1,542 Israelis were killed and 5,431 wounded, according to official Israeli sources, since the start of Operation Al-Aqsa Flood, which was carried out by the Izz al-Din al-Qassam Brigades – the military wing of the Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas). At least 242 Israelis were also captured.

2023-11-05 08:37:04

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