The Ministry of Health in the Gaza Strip announced – today, Tuesday – that the death toll from the Israeli aggression had risen to 20,915 martyrs and 54,918 injured, most of them women and children.
The Ministry explained that during the past 24 hours, the occupation army committed about 18 massacres against entire families, claiming 241 martyrs and 382 wounded.
It expressed fear that targeting the vicinity of the Nasser Medical Complex, in Khan Yunis, south of the Gaza Strip, would be a repetition of the scenario implemented by the army against the Shifa Medical Complex in Gaza City and hospitals in the northern Gaza Strip.
The Ministry of Health called on international institutions to protect the Nasser Medical Complex, the medical staff, the wounded, the sick, and thousands of displaced people there, after violent raids targeted the vicinity of the Nasser Hospital yesterday.
Gaza Health also called on international institutions to carry out urgent interventions to ensure the provision of medicines and fuel necessary to restart the Shifa Medical Complex, in the face of the need of thousands of wounded and sick people.
For his part, the spokesman for the Palestinian Red Crescent in Gaza said that the victims of the aggression, including doctors and paramedics, have so far reached 300 martyrs.
The occupation army is escalating its war on Gaza’s hospitals and health teams, as part of a devastating war on the besieged Strip that it has been waging since last October 7, which has left material and human losses, massive destruction of infrastructure and an unprecedented humanitarian catastrophe.