GAZA, Tuesday, May 7, 2024 (WAFA) – The director of Kuwait Hospital in the city of Rafah, south of the Gaza Strip, Suhaib Al-Hams, confirmed that the health situation in Rafah is catastrophic.

Al-Hams said that Kuwait Hospital is the only one in the center of Rafah and is overwhelmed with seriously wounded patients and lacks sufficient medications and supplies.

He added in a statements that the amount of food, beds, equipment, and fuel in the hospital is not sufficient to continue operating for a long time.

The hospital receives dozens of martyrs and wounded, and that there are difficulties in dealing with them due to the lack of medical capabilities and supplies, stressing that the only x-ray machine in the hospital stopped working.

Regarding the health situation in the city of Rafah, he said, Abu Youssef Al-Najjar Hospital, which is the only government hospital in Rafah, is among the areas that the occupation ordered to evacuate, and that there is no room to evacuate the hospital and there is no room for the wounded or the displaced.

He called on the international community and the Arab and Islamic world to intervene urgently and immediately to stop the Israeli offensive against the city of Rafah.

Since yesterday, the occupation forces began to invade the city of Rafah and ordered civilians in the eastern regions to evacuate.

The Israeli occupation has deliberately forced civilians to flee from the north and center of the Gaza Strip to the cities of Khan Yunis and Rafah in the south.

Since the beginning of the ground operation launched by the occupation forces in the Gaza Strip on the 27th, the city of Rafah, which estimated at about 65 square kilometers, has been the last refuge for displaced people and now includes more than 1.5 million civilians.

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