RAMALLAH, December 6, 2024 (WAFA) - The Palestinian Ministry of Health has renewed its urgent appeal and the voices of its staff to the international community, human rights and health organizations, and the International Committee of the Red Cross for increased action, pressure, and intervention to stop the brutal aggression of the occupation against the health system, its personnel, patients, and the wounded.
As the occupation targets treatment centers, bombards them, kills, injures, and arrests those within, and prevents all medical supplies and support, this internationally and humanely prohibited aggression escalates daily. Israeli occupation forces are bombing hospitals and killing those inside in front of the entire world, and they have begun to target volunteer medical teams from various countries.
Kamal Adwan Hospital is currently facing a new war crime, with occupation forces exercising all forms of killing and violence within and around it. Those remaining among the wounded inside are suffering from severe injuries and are in urgent need of treatment.
The Palestinian Ministry of Health confirmed that the scale of the humanitarian disaster in the Gaza Strip is horrifying and beyond description. There is no safe health environment, no living conditions that protect citizens from diseases and cold, no safe drinking water, and no electricity, fuel, food, or medicine.
For more than a year, the ministry has been daily appealing for protection for treatment centers, health personnel, ambulance crews, and volunteer medical teams, to stop the aggression, and to allow the entry of urgent medical supplies and the evacuation of the wounded for treatment.
The number of hospitals operating partially has become 17 out of 36, with minimal resources in terms of personnel, supplies, equipment, fuel, and electricity. They are at risk of ceasing operations at any moment.
Additionally, most emergency and healthcare centers have gone out of service, with approximately 1,050 healthcare personnel martyred to date, and 136 ambulances rendered inoperable, along with over 1,000 recorded attacks on the health sector so far.
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