Palestinian Health Ministry urges global action for Gaza medicine, fuel supply
The Palestinian Health Ministry has called on the world nations to help bring medicine and fuel to the besieged Gaza Strip.
Health Minister Mai al-Kaila said on Monday the international community needed to take action for the entry of the necessities for hospitals in Gaza.
“The international community and humanitarian organizations must intervene immediately to open the Rafah border crossing with Egypt and allow the entry of medicine and fuel for Gaza hospitals,” the minister was quoted by Palestinian news agency WAFA.
Kaila said Israeli authorities claim the hospitals are used by the Palestinian fighters but, he explained, it merely shows “Israeli attempts to find excuses for bombing.”
Israel continues heavy bombardment in the vicinity of several hospitals in the north of the Gaza Strip. Palestinian officials say all communications and internet services have been cut again.
“For more than an hour, intense bombings have been taking place around hospitals,” said Salama Maarouf, head of the Hamas media office, on Sunday evening.
The vicinity of the largest hospital Shifa saw particularly heavy strikes.
A spokesman for the Gaza health ministry warned on Monday that Israel is “preparing something bad” for Shifa.
The spokesman said the hospital cannot be evacuated since it is housing thousands of wounded people, kidney dialysis patients and newborns in neonatal intensive care units, in addition to internally displaced persons.
“The occupation is going beyond all the red lines. It is the responsibility of the UN, WHO, Red Cross and others to protect Shifa medical complex and they must adopt decisive procedures to do that.”
“If the hospital is out of service, there will be no medical care to patients or injured. This is a warning and this hospital must be protected by the entire world.”
In the occupied West Bank, Palestinian Prime Minister Mohammad Shtayyeh could not hold back his tears during the opening session of the cabinet meeting in Ramallah on Monday as he spoke about the death of children in Gaza.
Israel has killed more than 10,000 Palestinians in Gaza since October 7, after the resistance movement Hamas launched its surprise Operation Al-Aqsa Storm.
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