The spokesman for the Ministry of Health in the Gaza Strip, Dr. Ashraf Al-Qudra, confirmed - in a press conference held today, Wednesday - that more than 7,000 sick and wounded people need urgent surgical intervention after the health system in Gaza was completely out of service.

Al-Qudra revealed that hospitals in Gaza have become unable to provide health services to the sick and wounded who fall as a result of the ongoing Israeli bombing.

He said that the international community did not take seriously the distress calls launched by the Ministry of Health in Gaza since the start of the Israeli aggression, which accelerated the collapse of the health system in the Strip.

Al-Qudra pointed out that hospitals in Gaza have turned into shelter corridors whose corridors, departments and courtyards are filled with displaced people, which hinders the provision of safe medical services and exposes the lives of the wounded to more complications. He warned that those displaced to hospitals seeking protection and safety suffer from an unsafe environment in which there is neither sufficient water nor Personal hygiene, which makes diseases and epidemics spread among them quickly.

Al-Qudra called for urgent interventions to save the collapsed health system, open the Rafah land crossing, and ensure the flow of medical aid and fuel, in addition to the immediate entry of medical delegations.

Israel launches continuous raids on the Gaza Strip after the painful blow it received at the hands of the Palestinian resistance, which launched Operation “Al-Aqsa Flood” at dawn on Saturday, October 7, 2023.

Source: Al Jazeera