Palestinian Health Ministry urges global community to stop Israeli aggression on medical system

The Palestinian Ministry of Health has made a distress call to the international community, international human rights and health institutions, and the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC), to move, pressure and intervene to stop the brutal Israeli occupation aggression on the health system and its cadres, and on patients and the wounded in the occupied Palestinian territories.

The ministry said in a statement on Friday that the occupation targets treatment centers, bombs them, kills, injures and arrests those in them, and prevents them from receiving any health supplies and support, noting that this aggression, which is internationally and humanitarianly prohibited, is escalating daily, as the occupation forces blow up hospitals and kill those in them in front of the entire world, even targeting volunteer medical teams from many countries.

It indicated that Kamal Adwan Hospital, north of the Gaza Strip, is now being subjected to a new war crime, as the occupation forces are practicing all forms of killing and violence in it and its surroundings, and the remaining wounded inside it are suffering from severe wounds and are in immediate need of treatment.

The Palestinian Ministry of Health confirmed in its statement that the scale of the humanitarian disaster in the southern governorates is horrific and beyond description, adding, "There is no safe health environment, no living conditions that protect citizens from diseases and cold, no potable water, no electricity, fuel, food or medicine."

It said that the number of hospitals that are partially operating in the Gaza Strip is 17 hospitals out of 36, with minimal capabilities of cadres, supplies, equipment, fuel and electricity, and they are threatened with stopping work at any moment, as well as most of the ambulance and health care centers are out of service.

The ministry indicated that about 1050 health cadres have been martyred to date, and 136 ambulances have been out of service, in addition to recording more than a thousand attacks on the health sector.