The Minister of Health, Dr. May caused the collapse of the health system in the Gaza Strip, which threatens the imminent death of every wounded and sick person in the Strip.

During a press conference held at the ministry’s headquarters in the city of Ramallah on Tuesday, Kayla said: “The number of martyrs since October 7 in the Gaza Strip has reached about 5,700 martyrs, including 2,360 children, or 40%, and 1,292 women, or 30%, in addition to 295 elderly people.”

She continued: At dawn today, the number of hospitals completely stopped has become 15 out of 35, that is, a third of the number of hospitals. These hospitals have stopped as a result of the Israeli bombing and the exhaustion of fuel.

She added that various hospitals are being subjected to threats of evacuation by the occupation forces, in addition to the deliberate bombing of hospitals or their surroundings, where thousands of citizens are taking refuge, stressing that since this afternoon, hospitals have not been able to receive any sick or wounded person for treatment, as there is no possibility of treatment due to a complete shortage of beds and severe overcrowding in the hospital. Numbers of patients in the emergency department in addition to other departments where hospital floors and corridors are used for treatment.

As for medical personnel, Kayla indicated that they constitute 30-35% of the necessary need for sick and wounded people, adding: This sharp decline in the number of medical personnel is due to multiple reasons, the most important of which is the extreme difficulty for personnel to reach various areas as a result of the violent bombing that destroyed roads, and as a result of the situation. The psychological condition that a nurse or doctor suffers from as their families are exposed to bombing or displacement, and thus the medical staff becomes exposed to great pressure between providing service during the bombing and their concern for their family.

Kayla indicated that 65 martyrs of the medical staff died as a result of the bombing, adding: There are hundreds of wounded and 25 ambulances that were directly bombed.

She continued: Power outages and fuel consumption are all at risk of running out within hours, explaining that medical staff are performing operations in hospital corridors and on the lights of mobile phones, and this represents the worst condition that a human mind can bear as a health staff who wants to provide service.

She confirmed that cancer patients suffer from the lack of medications or chemotherapy sessions, and dialysis patients are deprived of sessions that have been reduced by half, and there are hundreds of premature babies and the elderly who are at the heart of danger.

Al-Kaila appealed to international and human rights organizations to intervene urgently in order to save our people in the Gaza Strip and to put pressure on the occupation government to bring in fuel, medicines, medical supplies, medical gases, food and potable water, and to take the wounded out for treatment in the Republic of Egypt or other countries and bring in medical teams to support health personnel working in Gaza.