The international organization Doctors Without Borders confirmed that one of its convoys was deliberately attacked by the Israeli occupation forces during their evacuation from the Shifa Medical Complex in central Gaza City.

The organization said in a statement on its official website on Sunday that one of its employees’ relatives was killed and another was injured in the attack on its convoy.

The France-based international organization added that the convoy was trying to evacuate 137 of its Palestinian employees and their families from the Shifa Medical Complex in central Gaza City, indicating that thousands of civilians in Gaza City were at risk of death, including more than 100 of its employees and their families.

At dawn last Wednesday, the Israeli occupation army stormed the Al-Shifa Complex after besieging it for days, as it contains civilians who were displaced from their homes as a result of the ongoing Israeli bombing in the area.

In non-final statistics, the Ministry of Health announced that the number of martyrs in the Gaza Strip had increased, as of yesterday evening, Saturday (November 17), more than 11,800 dead, including 4,900 children, 3,155 women, and 690 elderly people, while the number of casualties reached more than 29,500 wounded. Since the start of the occupation’s aggression against the Gaza Strip on the seventh of last October.

During the same period, 205 health personnel and 36 civil defense personnel were killed, in addition to more than 215 wounded health workers. More than 60 ambulances were also attacked, 55 of which were damaged and put out of service.

While 26 of 35 hospitals in Gaza, and 52 of 72 primary health care clinics, i.e. more than two-thirds, stopped working due to damage resulting from the occupation bombing or lack of fuel.