2023-10-15 10:21:43
The Ministry of Health in the Gaza Strip said that the number of martyrs rose to 2,329 martyrs and 9,024 wounded, most of whom were women and children.
She added that the number of martyrs as a result of the Israeli aggression in 8 days exceeds the number of martyrs of the 2014 war in 51 days.
The spokesman for the Ministry of Health in the Gaza Strip, Ashraf Al-Qudra, said that this situation “confirms that the crimes committed by Israel once morest our people amount to ethnic cleansing.”
In the 2014 war, 2,322 Palestinians were martyred, including 578 children and 489 women, according to the Ministry of Health at the time.
The number of Palestinian civilian martyrs as of Sunday morning reached 2,329 Palestinians, and 9,042 others were injured since October 7 and the start of the Al-Aqsa Flood Battle.
The Ministry of Health also stated that 70% of the population of the northern Gaza Strip are deprived of health services following the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA) evacuated its centers and stopped its services.
For its part, the Palestinian News Agency said that 47 Palestinian families consisting of regarding 500 people were removed from the civil registry as a result of the Israeli massacres in the Gaza Strip.
According to the Palestinian Ministry of Health, 28 Palestinian health sector workers were martyred in the aggression on Gaza.
In a related context, the World Health Organization strongly condemned in a statement Israel’s repeated orders to evacuate 22 hospitals treating more than 2,000 patients in northern Gaza, saying that the occupation’s orders “are tantamount to a death sentence.”
She noted that “the forced evacuation of patients and health workers will further exacerbate the current humanitarian and public health catastrophe.”
The World Health Organization emphasized that “the overwhelming majority of caregivers chose to remain and respect their oath as health professionals.”
“Health workers should never have to make such impossible choices,” she stressed.
It is noteworthy that the Israeli aggression once morest the Gaza Strip continues for the ninth day in a row, as the strip is bombarded by aircraft, battleships, gunboats, and occupation artillery, targeting in its entirety homes, towers, and residential buildings, causing hundreds of martyrs and wounded among civilians, in addition to the destruction of public and private property, and infrastructure. Infrastructure, wiping out entire residential blocks.
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