The Palestinian Ministry of Health announced that the number of sick and wounded martyrs in the Al-Shifa Medical Complex in Gaza, as a result of the power outage, loss of fuel, and lack of medical supplies, has risen to 40, including 3 children, noting that the occupation is still besieging the complex and targeting anyone who moves within its courtyards or in its surroundings.
The Ministry explained that the situation is catastrophic in the complex amid the loss of food, water, fuel, medicines and all necessities of life, threatening the lives of more than 1,300 medical staff, the sick and the wounded, and about 10,000 displaced people present in the complex, noting that it appealed to UN and international institutions to intervene, evacuate them and save their lives, but without any response. .
The Ministry stated that the decomposition of the bodies of the martyrs that are spread in the corridors of the complex and the accumulation of garbage in it threaten the spread of epidemics, which will make the situation worse, noting that under the fire of the occupation, at least 179 bodies were buried, including the bodies of 7 premature babies, in the compound’s campus, which was turned into a mass grave as a result of the occupation’s ban. Taking them out of the compound to bury them.
The Ministry reported that international institutions have turned their backs on more than 900,000 Palestinians in Gaza and its north, including health and service institutions for the displaced, and they have become without the minimum necessities of life.