The World Health Organization said today, Tuesday, that more than 160 health care workers have died while serving in Gaza, due to the Israeli aggression that has been continuing for more than a month, noting that surgeries are being performed on some people in Gaza without anesthesia, including surgeries. Amputation.

According to the organization's data, Israel has carried out 229 attacks on hospitals and health care centers since the outbreak of the war in the Gaza Strip on October 7.

Data published on the organization's website indicate that, as of November 6, these attacks resulted in the deaths of 509 Palestinians, including citizens, patients, and medical staff, in addition to the injury of 447 others.

The number of hospitals in Gaza is 34, of which the Ministry of Health directly manages 13 with a bed capacity of 2,011 beds, while the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA) provides health services to more than 70% of the population of the Strip.

Some health institutions are managed by government agencies, such as military medical services, or health organizations such as the Red Crescent, Medical Relief, and others.

Targeting and losses

The sector also includes a number of clinics and dispensaries affiliated with the Ministry of Health, and charitable societies that contribute to providing primary medical services within residential neighborhoods.

Since October 7, the Israeli army has been waging a devastating war on Gaza, in which more than 10,000 Palestinians were killed, including 4,104 children and 2,641 women, and more than 25,000 others were injured, in addition to the killing of 160 Palestinians and the arrest of 2,150 in the West Bank, according to official sources.

Many hospitals in the northern Gaza Strip have been evacuated, and the surroundings of some hospitals are being bombed, while others have stopped working because they were damaged by the bombing or as a result of running out of fuel necessary to continue their work.

Two days ago, dozens of Israeli doctors called in a petition for the army to bomb Al-Shifa Hospital, the largest in the Gaza Strip, claiming that it includes a headquarters for Palestinian militants.

These doctors were preceded by dozens of Israeli rabbis who issued a similar call to the Israeli army to bomb hospitals in the Gaza Strip, according to the Hebrew “HaMedash” website.

According to the Government Information Office in the Gaza Strip, the number of hospitals that completely stopped serving during the Israeli war reached 16 hospitals.

Meanwhile, 18 other hospitals remain, all of which are operating partially and under dire circumstances.