The Red Cross warns of a complete collapse of health care in Gaza.

The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) has warned that the healthcare system in the Gaza Strip is on the verge of total collapse, as Israel continues its genocide against Palestinians in the Strip for more than a year and a half.

The committee said in a statement on Sunday that most of the Palestinians injured in the recent incidents in Gaza were trying to reach aid distribution sites run by the US-Israeli mechanism.

The committee noted that the past few days have witnessed an escalation in hostilities around the few remaining hospitals still operating in Gaza.

It also called for the preservation of the remaining healthcare facilities in the Strip to avoid further loss of life.

The committee stressed that medical staff face the challenge of saving lives amidst their continued exposure to stray bullets, which endangers the safety of both medical personnel and the injured, and threatens the continuity of the field hospital's operations.

She stressed that the unprecedented rate of arrival of injured people, many of whom require immediate medical attention, has exhausted and depleted medical staff.

The Red Cross concluded in its statement that the health care system in Gaza is on the verge of complete collapse.

The Red Cross stressed that medical staff face the challenge of saving lives under a hail of bullets, threatening their safety and the continued operation of the field hospital.

Over the past two weeks, the Red Cross field hospital in Rafah (southern Gaza) was forced to activate its mass casualty response procedures 12 times after receiving large numbers of people wounded by gunfire and shrapnel, according to the same statement.

The committee indicated in its statement that the number of cases received by the hospital during this period exceeded 916, including 41 people who were declared dead upon arrival.

In the same vein, field hospital director Grace Osomo said, "We continue to receive large numbers of patients daily, and we have to accommodate them wherever possible, including stretchers placed on the floor."

Aid traps

Hours before the Red Cross statement, the government media office in the Gaza Strip announced that the death toll from US-Israeli aid traps had risen to 125, with 736 wounded and nine missing since May 27. This followed the deaths of 13 Palestinians and the injury of 153 others in two attacks on Sunday.

Beyond the supervision of the United Nations and international relief organizations, Tel Aviv began implementing a plan to distribute humanitarian aid on May 27 through the Gaza Humanitarian Relief Foundation, an organization supported by Israel and the United States but rejected by the United Nations.

Aid distribution is taking place in the so-called "buffer zones" in southern and central Gaza, amid growing signs that this plan is failing. Distribution has been repeatedly interrupted by the influx of starving people, prompting Israeli forces to open fire, resulting in civilian deaths and injuries.

The distributed quantities are described as scarce and do not meet the needs of hundreds of thousands of hungry people in the Gaza Strip.

The distribution process is conducted according to a mechanism described by human rights and international organizations as humiliating and degrading, with those in need forced to pass through iron cages enclosed in barbed wire, a scene observers have likened to the practices of the Nazi ghettos in Europe during World War II.

Israeli Army Radio confirmed that this plan aims to expedite the evacuation of residents of the northern Gaza Strip by restricting aid distribution to only four points in southern Gaza.