Yesterday, Sunday, the authorities in Gaza announced a new toll of martyrs and wounded, amid the occupation’s continued perpetration of bloody massacres in the north and south of the Strip.
The Ministry of Health in Gaza said that the ongoing Israeli aggression since the seventh of last October has led to the death of 35,034 martyrs and 78,755 wounded.
Ministry spokesman Khalil Al-Dakran explained that the aggression resulted in the martyrdom of 500 medical personnel, including 138 nurses. He called on the international community and free people of the world to protect medical staff and health institutions and criminalize attacks on them.
On the occasion of International Nurses Day, which falls on May 12 of each year, Al-Dakran called on unions, international institutions and the World Health Organization to send medical and nursing teams to support health teams in Gaza.
He also renewed the international community’s call for pressure to open the crossings, send medical aid in the form of medicines, equipment and fuel, and refer cases for treatment abroad to save the health system in the Gaza Strip.
The Ministry of Health in Gaza said that on “the 219th day of the ongoing Israeli aggression on the Gaza Strip, a number of victims are still under the rubble and on the roads, and ambulance and civil defense crews are unable to reach them.”
8 massacres in a day
The ministry explained in a statement that “the Israeli occupation committed 8 massacres against families in the Gaza Strip, including 63 martyrs and 114 injuries during the past 24 hours.”
Tel Aviv Tribune’s correspondent reported that a number of martyrs and wounded fell at the Nuzha Street intersection, in Jabalia al-Balad, north of the Gaza Strip, amid the inability of medical teams to reach them.
He added that Israeli drones were shooting at ambulances and preventing them from moving in Jabalia camp.
The Israeli occupation forces penetrated the camp, under cover of violent bombardment by aircraft and artillery. Which forced residents to move.
The occupation army’s vehicles were stationed behind the shelter schools in the camp, in the presence of thousands of displaced people.
In the Al-Sabra neighborhood, south of Gaza City, an Al-Jazeera correspondent reported that 3 martyrs and 8 wounded were killed in an Israeli bombing that targeted a residential building. Among the martyrs was Talal Abu Zarifa, a member of the political bureau of the Democratic Front.
The reporter quoted medical sources as saying that a Palestinian was killed and others were injured in an Israeli bombing that targeted the Bisan Medical Center in the Bureij refugee camp in the central Gaza Strip.
In the southern Gaza Strip, 22 Palestinians, including women and children, were martyred in Israeli raids and artillery shelling on various areas of the city of Rafah within 24 hours.
Since the start of the ground invasion of the eastern parts of the city of Rafah for the sixth day in a row, the number of martyrs has risen to more than 140 martyrs, in addition to the destruction of dozens of homes and commercial establishments.
