The medical system in the Gaza Strip sent an urgent distress call to the international community and its international and relief institutions to provide electric generators to hospitals in the Gaza Strip.

It explained in a statement today, Saturday, that it has been relying on electric generators for nine months to supply hospitals with the necessary electrical energy around the clock after the destruction of the only power plant in the Gaza Strip.

It warned that stopping the electrical generators would mean certain death for the sick and injured and the complete end of the health service in the Gaza Strip.

It pointed out that a number of electrical generators in hospitals suffered major technical malfunctions that were difficult to repair, and a number of others were directly destroyed by the occupation.

It was expected that the electrical generators in the remaining hospitals, health centers, and pharmaceutical warehouses would stop as a result of preventing the entry of spare parts needed for their maintenance.

It pointed out that the occupation forces deliberately destroyed the electrical generators in Al-Shifa Medical Complex, Nasser Complex, the Indonesian Hospital, and Kamal Adwan Hospital in northern Gaza, with the aim of putting them out of service, while Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital is still working on one generator after one of the two main generators broke down, which threatens the occurrence of a humanitarian disaster.

The medical sources stressed that they have been continuing their contacts with international institutions, led by the International Committee of the Red Cross, in order to supply new generators and spare parts since the beginning of the aggression, but to no avail as a result of the occupation’s intransigence.