The Ministry of Health of the Islamist group Hamas, which controls the Gaza Strip, warned this Tuesday that the enclave’s health system “has reached the worst phase in its history” due to the blockade imposed by Israel.
The Ministry warned that hospitals are running out of resources, including fuel reserves, so they will be left without electricity and with overcrowded facilities due to the high number of deaths and injuries, according to a statement.
At least 57 Palestinians were killed this morning, following new shelling by the Israel Defense Forces against the cities of Khan Younis and Rafah, in the southern Gaza Strip, he said.
The attacks on homes and a gas station in Khan Yunis have so far left 23 dead and 80 injured, according to the Palestinian news agency Wafa.
In Rafah, 30 people were killed and dozens injured after the Israeli army bombed residential buildings, according to Palestinian sources, and rescue operations are still underway.
Also in Gaza, Palestinian journalist Mohamed Imad Labad was killed in an Israeli attack near his home in the Sheikh Radwan neighborhood, bringing to 20 the number of journalists killed since the start of the war on October 7.
Shortly after, the Palestinian newspaper Filastin, linked to Hamas, announced the recovery of two bodies from the rubble of Khan Yunis and three in Rafah.
Meanwhile, the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs announced this morning the deaths of six employees of the UN Palestine Refugee Agency (UNRWA), the main humanitarian aid organization still able to work in Gaza.
This brings to 35 the number of UNRWA staff killed since the start of the war between Israel and Hamas on October 7.
The Secretary General of the UN, António Guterres, regretted these deaths and said he was with the employees “who are doing everything possible to help those who need it most,” he said in a message published on the social network X (formerly Twitter). . .
On Monday, the UN again warned that Gaza’s main hospital, Shifa Hospital, is “on the brink of collapse”, like other health facilities, due to a lack of electricity, medicines, equipment and staff.
On October 7, Hamas launched a surprise attack on southern Israel with the launch of thousands of rockets and the raid of armed militiamen, taking two hundred hostages.
In response, Israel declared war on Hamas, which has controlled the Gaza Strip since 2007 and is classified as terrorist by the European Union and the United States, bombing several of the group’s infrastructure in the Gaza Strip, while imposing a total siege of the territory with cutoff of water, fuel and electricity supplies.
The conflict has already caused thousands of deaths and injuries, between soldiers and civilians, in both territories.
Source: TSF
