Today, Thursday, the Palestinian Ministry of Health warned of an imminent health catastrophe in the Gaza Strip as a result of hospitals being cut off from fuel. The Ministry noted that the occupation forces prevented the evacuation of wounded Palestinians to Egypt to receive treatment.

This came in a statement read by the official spokesman for the Ministry of Health, Ashraf Al-Qudra, in which he said that the occupation forces are still committing massacres one after another in all areas of the Gaza Strip, with a focus on populated areas.

Al-Qudra noted that the occupation committed 15 massacres in the past hours, claiming 256 martyrs so far, bringing the number of massacres committed by the occupation to 965 against families since the beginning of its aggression on the seventh of last October.

Al-Qudra pointed out that the death toll of the aggression amounted to 9,061 martyrs, including 3,760 children and 2,326 women. The aggression also resulted in 32,000 citizens being injured with various injuries, while the Ministry of Health received 2,060 reports of people missing under the rubble, and 1,150 children were missing under the rubble.

Al-Qudra also reminded that the occupation forces continue to target the health system in the besieged Gaza Strip, where 135 health personnel were martyred and 25 ambulances were destroyed, in addition to targeting more than 100 health institutions, and putting 16 hospitals out of service, as well as 32 health care centers as a result of the targeting of the Israeli occupation forces. And running out of fuel.

The Ministry of Health spokesman warned of an imminent health disaster as a result of the stoppage of the main electrical generator in the Indonesian hospital, and the imminent stoppage of the generator in the Al-Shifa Medical Complex, which will have dire health consequences if the hospitals are not supplied with fuel or electricity.

The Ministry of Health also renewed its appeals to all parties to quickly supply the Indonesian Hospital and the Al-Shifa Complex with fuel before “the disaster occurs.” It also appealed to the Turkish President to intervene to protect the Turkish Friendship Hospital and provide it with fuel, and “save more than 10,000 cancer patients in the Gaza Strip, as the hospital is... The only one who cares for cancer patients in the sector.”

The Ministry of Health reiterated its calls on the international community to provide a safe passage for the exit of large numbers of wounded from serious and complex cases, especially those for which treatment is not available within the collapsed hospitals of the Gaza Strip, in addition to providing a safe passage for the flow of aid and medical delegations to enter urgently to rescue the wounded and the sick.

Ashraf Al-Qudra indicated in his press statement that the occupation is preventing the evacuation of the wounded to Egypt from the northern Gaza Strip and its hospitals, by cutting off the roads connecting the northern and southern Gaza Strip, all the way to the Rafah crossing. He noted that the wounded who were approved to be taken out of the Gaza Strip in ambulances are still present. In the Gaza Strip, the occupation prevents their exit by cutting their access routes between the north and south of the Gaza Strip.