A Turkish aid ship carrying field hospitals for the Gaza Strip arrived at the port of Al-Arish, near the Rafah border crossing with the Gaza Strip, according to what an official in the port located in northern Sinai, Egypt, told Agence France-Presse.

The ship is the first to carry field hospitals for Gaza to arrive in Egypt at a time when all Gaza hospitals are out of service, according to the Ministry of Health in the Strip. The Turkish Ministry of Health confirmed that “the ship that arrived in Al-Arish carries equipment, supplies, and ambulances to establish 8 field hospitals.”

An official in the Turkish Ministry of Health confirmed that Ankara requested the approval of the Egyptian authorities to establish these hospitals in Al-Arish, which is 40 kilometers from the Rafah crossing, explaining that the Egyptian authorities had already given the green light to establish the hospitals in the places they specified.

Since the start of the Israeli war on Gaza more than 6 weeks ago, the Rafah crossing, the only outlet for the besieged Gaza Strip to the outside world, has been opened intermittently and limited aid has entered from it, while a limited number of those who were injured in the Israeli bombing of the Strip and hundreds of foreigners and dual nationals have left.

Doctors Without Borders warned that hospitals in Gaza City could become “morgues,” as thousands of residents of northern Gaza are crowded into hospitals surrounded by tanks and bombed by Israeli aircraft. While the wounded remain in the streets, those displaced to the south complain of tragic conditions, where there is no shelter no medicine or food.

The latest reports indicate that there are wounded people in the streets without medical care, as ambulances are unable to transport them, with aircraft bombing every movement in the vicinity of hospitals.

Since the seventh of last October, the occupation army has launched a continuous aggression against the Gaza Strip, which has led to the martyrdom of more than 11,000 Palestinians, most of whom are women and children, in addition to the destruction of the health sector and various vital facilities.