As the Israeli offensive continues, more than 150 Palestinians have been killed in Israeli attacks on Gaza in the past 24 hours, Gaza Health Ministry spokesman Ashraf al Qudra said.
Recent Israeli bombings have killed at least 156 people and injured 246.
This brings the death toll since the war began on October 7 to almost 22,000: a total of 21,978 people have been killed since then, while 57,697 have been injured, according to Gaza Health.
7,000 people are missing under the rubble
About 7,000 people are also missing under the rubble and he believes the total death toll could be higher, but the bodies have not yet been recovered.
The health service insists that 70% of all deaths are women and children, while 30 hospitals and 53 primary care centers in the Gaza Strip are “out of service”.
The health spokesperson confirmed that Israel still has 100 healthcare professionals in custody, including “directors of hospitals in the northern Gaza Strip” who are “being held in harsh conditions, exposed to extreme cold and subjected to physical and psychological torture, hunger, thirst and lack of sleep.”
The patients, sufferers, healthcare workers and civilians who sought refuge there were forced to evacuate by the Israeli army weeks ago, and health teams in the Gaza Strip are currently trying to reactivate the hospital, Gaza’s largest medical complex.
“Effective and urgent measures are being taken to ensure the opening of the Al Shifa medical center and hospitals in the north of the Gaza Strip after the major destruction,” Al Qudra noted on Monday.
800,000 people in the Gaza Strip have no access to medical care or hospitals
According to Health, nearly 800,000 Gazans living in the northern Gaza Strip – including Gaza City – have virtually no access to medical care or hospitals, are in a situation of extreme and unprecedented humanitarian catastrophe and as the contagion spreads due to war. spread conflict.
Gaza continues to face shortages of food, drinking water, medicine, basic supplies or fuel due to Israel’s harsh siege, which has virtually limited access to humanitarian aid since almost the start of the conflict. (EFE)
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