Israeli Occupation’s Targeting of Medical Personnel in Gaza Strip: Crimes Against Humanity and the Urgent Need for International Accountability

2023-10-10 20:07:37

The Israeli occupation targets medical personnel in the Gaza Strip (social networking sites)

The Palestinian Ministry of Health in the Gaza Strip reported, Tuesday evening, that the number of Palestinian martyrs had risen to 922 martyrs, including 260 children and 230 women, in addition to about 4,650 Palestinians sustaining various injuries as a result of the Israeli aggression on the Gaza Strip.

The Ministry said in a statement that the Israeli aggression against the Gaza Strip continues for the fourth day in a row with all brutality, as it targets residential neighborhoods and cuts water and electricity lines, which indicates the implementation of a genocide of more than two million Palestinian citizens in the Gaza Strip.

The ministry’s statement indicated that the Israeli occupation annihilated about 22 Palestinian families, including approximately 150 martyrs.

The statement pointed out that the Israeli occupation targeted medical personnel, which led to the death of 6 health personnel and the wounding of 15 others with various injuries.

The Ministry of Health explained that the crimes of the Israeli occupation led to the death of 8 journalists and the wounding of 20 others with various injuries.

At dawn today, 3 journalists were martyred as a result of a bombing that targeted them while they were covering the events, west of Gaza. They are: Saeed Al-Taweel, Muhammad Sobh, and Hisham Al-Nawajha, after the occupation targeted a residential building in which the journalists gathered.

According to the Ministry, when the medical teams examined the bodies of the victims of the Israeli aggression, they found that they had been torn or had their limbs amputated, in addition to the presence of complex wounds or various burns and damage to the internal organs, which indicates that the Israeli occupation deliberately used excessive force to kill innocent children, women and citizens, which requires international accountability. His crimes.

Regarding Israel’s brutal targeting of residential neighborhoods in the Gaza Strip, the Ministry said that the Israeli aggression caused the displacement of more than 140,000 citizens to shelter centers and hospital courtyards in harsh conditions whose consequences cannot be tolerated on the elderly, women, children and chronic patients, warning of the danger of the spread of Skin and infectious diseases and epidemics that know no borders.

Health in Gaza warned of the dangers of the continued Israeli occupation cutting off electricity and water lines and the impact this would have on the health of the wounded, the sick, public health and the environment, denouncing “the continued Israeli violations against health institutions, 9 of which were targeted, including the Ministry of Health building, the Rimal Clinic, the destruction of the International Eye Center, and the destruction of 15 cars.” Ambulance, which causes death to the health system and forces medical teams to work in dangerous and unsafe conditions.”

Despite the difficult conditions that the Strip is already suffering from due to the Israeli siege, the occupation tightened its siege, as its Energy Minister, Yisrael Katz, ordered the cutting of water supplies from the occupied territories to Gaza, in addition to cutting off electricity, fuel, and food.

The Ministry of Health indicated that the Israeli occupation began its aggression against the Gaza Strip and is aware that the health system is exhausted due to the continuation of the siege and the resulting severe shortage of 44% of medicines, 32% of medical consumables, and 60% of laboratory and blood bank supplies, in addition to the deterioration of electrical generators and the lack of fuel. The ambulance and emergency system has collapsed.

The Ministry of Health called for the provision of medicines, medical consumables, fuel, and emergency needs to hospitals, calling on the concerned authorities to work immediately to open a safe corridor for the entry of health aid and medical delegations and to facilitate the movement of the wounded and sick for whom treatment is not available in the Gaza Strip.

A reporter reported The fieldsToday, a joint team of doctors between the Tunisian Society for Crisis Management and the International Red Cross arrived at Al-Shifa Hospital in Gaza.

Meanwhile, Al-Shifa Medical Hospital in Gaza City is crowded with those wounded as a result of the Israeli bombing, some of whom are members of entire families, and they are praying in turn.

Doctors and nurses in the Gaza Strip complain of a lack of capacity, while the Ministry of Health warns of a “catastrophic situation.”

In turn, the media spokesman for the Palestinian Red Crescent Society in the Gaza Strip, Muhammad Abu Musabih, announced that 5 hospitals were targeted in the Strip, stressing that the health system in the Strip is collapsed and operates only 4 hours a day.

Abu Musabih explained that hospitals suffer from a scarcity of medical materials and equipment, and a severe shortage in the availability and availability of operating rooms.

He also indicated that the degree of injuries among Palestinians ranges from moderate to serious, adding that “there are many body parts of missing people recorded under the rubble, and it is difficult to reach them, due to the occupation’s destruction of roads and corridors.”

The Israeli occupation aircraft launched hundreds of raids on the Gaza Strip in a successive and violent manner, targeting towers, residential buildings, and civilian and service facilities, causing great destruction to property and infrastructure, and causing deaths and injuries, most of whom were women, children, and the elderly.

A reporter reported The fields In Gaza, the occupation uses phosphorus bombs in its brutal bombing of the Strip.

White phosphorus is a toxic and dangerous chemical weapon. It is a transparent, yellowish-white, waxy solid that has a garlic-like odor and is made from phosphate. It is known to be an easily combustible substance and is used in the manufacture of chemical and smoke munitions.

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