The Ministry of Health has issued a distress call to the international community, international human rights and health institutions, and the International Committee of the Red Cross, for more action, pressure, and intervention to stop the brutal Israeli occupation aggression against the health system and its staff, and against patients and the wounded.

The ministry said in a statement on Friday that the occupation is targeting treatment centers, bombing them, killing, wounding and arresting those inside them, and preventing them from receiving any medical supplies and support. It pointed out that this aggression, which is internationally and humanitarianally prohibited, is escalating daily, as the occupation forces are bombing hospitals and killing those inside them in front of the entire world, to the point that the targeting has included volunteer medical teams from many countries.

She pointed out that Kamal Adwan Hospital, north of the Gaza Strip, is now being subjected to a new war crime, as the occupation forces are practicing all forms of killing and violence in it and around it, and the remaining wounded inside it are suffering from severe wounds and are in immediate need of treatment.

The Ministry of Health confirmed that the scale of the humanitarian disaster in the southern governorates is horrific and beyond description, as there is no safe health environment, no living conditions that protect citizens from diseases and cold, no potable water, no electricity, fuel, food and medicine.

The ministry said that for more than a year, it has been calling on a daily basis to provide protection for treatment centers, health personnel, ambulance crews and vehicles, and volunteer medical teams, to stop the aggression, and to allow the entry of urgent medical supplies and the exit of the wounded for treatment.

She explained that the number of hospitals that are partially operating in the Gaza Strip is 17 hospitals out of 36, with minimal capabilities in terms of staff, supplies, equipment, fuel and electricity, and they are threatened with stopping work at any moment, and most of the ambulance and health care centers are out of service, noting that about 1050 health workers have been martyred to date, and 136 ambulances have been out of service, in addition to recording more than a thousand attacks on the health sector.