Dr. Munir Al-Bursh, Director-General of the Ministry of Health in the Gaza Strip, was injured along with all his family members, and his daughter was martyred in an Israeli bombing that targeted a house in Jabalia yesterday evening, Thursday, while the Ministry announced the sniper death of a health worker at Al-Awda Hospital in the northern Gaza Strip.
The Director-General of the Ministry of Health in Gaza was transferred to one of the medical points after “the occupation army destroyed all health system facilities in northern Gaza,” as the same health official confirmed earlier.
The Ministry of Health announced – today, Friday – that the Israeli army sniped a worker at Al-Awda Hospital, which has been besieged for several days in the northern Gaza Strip, causing her martyrdom.
The Ministry explained in a brief statement on the Telegram platform that those trapped inside the hospital are in a “state of terror, arrest, and torture,” noting that they are living without water, food, or medicine.
Last Wednesday, the ministry said that the Israeli army turned Al Awda Hospital into a military barracks, holding dozens of its medical personnel, patients, and displaced people inside.
Fierce campaign
According to health and human rights institutions, the Israeli army has been waging a fierce and systematic campaign against Gaza’s hospitals and the entire medical sector, especially in the north, since the beginning of its war on Gaza, which has left hundreds of thousands of wounded, pregnant women, children, and chronic patients without health services.
In addition to destroying hospitals in northern Gaza, Israeli artillery and aircraft targeted hospitals in the southern Gaza Strip, the most recent of which was the “Nasser Medical Complex” in Khan Yunis, according to identical sources.
Both the United Nations World Health Organization and UNICEF condemned Israel’s continued targeting of hospitals in the Gaza Strip, and warned of the significant decline in the number of workers in the health care sector there.
The representative of the World Health Organization in Gaza, Richard Peppercorn, described the situation in Gaza’s hospitals as “extremely sad and catastrophic.”
Since last October 7, the Israeli army has been waging a devastating war on Gaza, leaving more than 20,000 Palestinian martyrs and 52,600 wounded, most of them children and women, and massive destruction to infrastructure, while the United Nations and the Gaza Strip authorities described it as “an inhuman humanitarian disaster.” “Preceded.”
