The number of martyrs in the Gaza Strip since the start of the Israeli war has risen to 20,674 martyrs, while the number of wounded has reached 54,536, according to what the Ministry of Health in the Strip announced on Monday, after the people of the Strip lived through one of the most violent nights of the war.
The Ministry of Health said that the Israeli occupation army committed 25 massacres during the past 24 hours, killing 250 martyrs and wounding about 500 others.
Among these were at least 70 martyrs in Al-Maghazi camp in the central Gaza Strip, which last night witnessed a series of Israeli raids targeting a residential square. The bombing also extended to other residential neighborhoods in the central Gaza Strip, as well as in Khan Yunis in the south.
Tel Aviv Tribune obtained special photos showing the extent of the widespread destruction in Al-Maghazi camp, while an unspecified number of residents remain under the rubble of destroyed buildings.
On the other hand, citizens in the Abu Al-Amin area, east of the Sheikh Radwan neighborhood, northwest of Gaza City, were forced to bury their martyrs in a mass grave inside a house due to the ferocity of clashes between resistance fighters and the Israeli occupation forces.
Tel Aviv Tribune also monitored the situation in the Abu Iskandar area, east of the Sheikh Radwan neighborhood, after the tanks of the occupation forces withdrew. The residents suffered for long hours from the fire of these tanks, as they were unable to obtain water and food.
Martyrs as a result of the collapse of hospitals
Meanwhile, the Director General of the Government Media Office in Gaza, Ismail Al-Thawabta, told Al-Jazeera that more than 9,000 people were martyred due to the inability to treat them as a result of the collapse of the health sector.
Al-Thawabta stated that 23 hospitals in Gaza were out of service due to the focused and deliberate Israeli bombing, while the medical aid that arrived covers only 2% of the health sector’s needs.
For his part, the spokesman for the Ministry of Health in Gaza, Ashraf Al-Qudra, stated – during a press conference – that Israel is still detaining 99 health personnel, led by the directors of hospitals in northern Gaza, Muhammad Abu Salmiya, Ahmed Al-Kahlot, and Ahmed Muhanna.
He pointed out that “Israeli violations against the health system led to the martyrdom of 311 health personnel and the destruction of 102 ambulances.”
Regarding the health and humanitarian conditions in the shelter centers, Al-Qudra said that the matter has reached “catastrophic, catastrophic levels for more than 1.8 million displaced people who are exposed to the risks of famine, extreme cold, and the spread of diseases and epidemics.”
Al-Qudra called on international institutions to move from “the position of describing the catastrophic reality of the displaced and warnings of its danger to finding effective and urgent mechanisms that guarantee their humanitarian intervention to prevent disaster and famine.”
He explained that this would be done by providing adequate shelter for winter conditions, sufficient quantities of potable water, personal hygiene, food, clothing and blankets, and establishing medical points for the displaced in all their places of residence.