“Israeli forces intentionally destroy medical facilities, etc. and put residents on a leash.”
On the 21st, the entire area including Gaza City, Khan Younis, and refugee camps was bombed.
On the 21st (local time), the Gaza Strip’s Ministry of Health issued a statement regarding the medical situation during the war in the Gaza Strip, saying, “The health care situation is also a miserable and painful disaster.”
“The Israeli military is strangling us with concentrated attacks on hospitals and other health care systems,” Health Ministry spokesman Ashraf al-Khedra said at a press conference.
“As such attacks accumulate and hospitals lose medical equipment and facilities, the death toll is rapidly increasing,” he said.
“Especially now, even the hospitals in the south of the Gaza Strip have been destroyed to the point where they cannot provide normal treatment at all, and as a result, they are overloaded and cannot handle treatment everywhere,” said an Alkhedra spokesperson.
He explained that 70% of the medical supplies currently coming into the Gaza Strip are outside the scope of basic medical activities needed by local hospitals, and 99% of hospital personnel are held captive by the Israeli military.
Earlier on the 21st, the Gaza Health Ministry announced that the number of Palestinian deaths due to the Israeli invasion war had reached 25,105 since the war began on October 7 last year.
Meanwhile, ground battles between the Israeli army and Palestinian resistance groups, including Hamas, were intense in most areas of the Gaza Strip, and Israeli warplanes and artillery continued to bomb all cities in the Gaza Strip, nearby residential areas, and refugee shelters.
At the beginning of the war, Israel advised Gaza residents to evacuate to the south, but they also attacked the refuge columns and even bombed hospitals in the southern city of Khan Younis, leaving the southern region’s medical system virtually devastated.
Meanwhile, Xinhua News Agency, quoting eyewitnesses in the Gaza Strip, cited eyewitnesses in the Gaza Strip as saying that on the morning of Sunday the 21st, Gaza City, Jabalia City, and Beit Lahia in the north, Ma’an, Bani Suhaila, and Abasan, Khan Younis in the southeast, and Al Buray in the center. It was reported that the sounds of explosions and intense shelling continued in populated areas throughout the Gaza Strip, including refugee camps.
Source: Donga
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