Wafa - Minister of Health, Mai Al-Kaila, said, “Targeting hospitals, medical and ambulance teams in the Gaza Strip, in light of the ongoing Israeli aggression for the 36th day in a row, is a “war crime” and genocide.

Al-Kaila explained in a press conference, held today, Saturday, at the headquarters of the Ministry of Health in the city of Ramallah, to find out the latest developments regarding the ongoing aggression against hospitals and medical staff and the Gaza Strip in general, that the situation in the hospitals of the Gaza Strip has reached an unprecedented situation in history, with hospitals and staff being targeted. Medical and ambulance vehicles.

She explained that international law, international humanitarian law, and international treaties have become a dead letter after these massacres committed in the Gaza Strip, because they cannot protect the hospital from bombing, and cannot stop the Israeli machine of destruction and killing against hospitals, doctors, the sick, the wounded, and displaced civilians. .

She pointed out that the occupation bombed the Baptist Hospital, leaving more than 500 martyrs, and tried to disavow its crime, but today, in a live and direct broadcast, and in a frank confession and in front of the whole world, it bombs hospitals, cutting off fuel, medicines, medical supplies, electricity, and water, with the result being certain death for patients. Either due to thirst, burns, lack of medicine, or bombardment with lethal weapons by the Israeli occupation.

She continued, “The Israeli machine of destruction and killing is still waging its aggression against the Gaza Strip for the 36th day, as the number of martyrs since the beginning of the aggression against the Gaza Strip has reached more than 11 thousand martyrs, including more than 4,500 children, 3,000 women, and 700 elderly people, while the number of wounded has reached More than 27 thousand wounded, most of them women and children.

Minister Al-Kaila noted that Al-Shifa Hospital was bombed and targeted, and the power supply to large parts and sections of it was cut off, as the fourth floor of the Obstetrics and Gynecology Hospital and the outpatient clinics were bombed, and the power supply to pediatric intensive care, where 39 children were threatened with martyrdom, was cut off.

She added that Al-Awda Hospital was bombed and parts of the building were destroyed, and a number of ambulance vehicles and the hospital’s courtyards were destroyed. The medical staff in the hospital were informed of the need to evacuate it immediately, leaving the patients without the slightest medical care. However, the medical staff remained determinedly in the hospital, in addition to the Baptist Hospital. Al-Ahly Al-Arabi, in which the orthopedic and surgery department remained functioning after the bombing, with the available capabilities.