RAMALLAH, Sunday, November 12, 2023 (WAFA) – Minister of Health, Mai Al-Kaila, Sunday sent an urgent distress call to the International Committee of the Red Cross in order to put pressure on stopping the escalating Israeli aggression against the Gaza Strip for the thirty-seventh day.

This came during an emergency meeting held today with the committee’s representative in Jerusalem, Jean-Philippe, and the Red Cross health affairs coordinator, Graham Dugan.

Al-Kaila reviewed the catastrophic health situation in the Gaza Strip, and the attacks happening against the health system, where 23 out of 35 hospitals have completely stopped working, noting that the occupation forces are besieging many hospitals and preventing medical staff, paramedics, and patients from entry or exit.

She said that hundreds of patients and wounded are at risk of death at any moment as a result of the bombing and besieging of hospitals, the power outage, the depletion of fuel, medicines and medical supplies shortage, and the lack of the most basic necessities of life.

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