Israeli raids continue on Gaza amid a disaster in the health sector and the specter of famine continues

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A number of Palestinians were martyred and others were injured today, Sunday, by an Israeli bombing that targeted residential homes in Gaza City and the central Gaza Strip, while the occupation continues to target electricity generators in hospitals, while families in the northern Gaza Strip are experiencing ongoing famine.

Medical sources at Al-Baptist Hospital in downtown Gaza City reported that “four martyrs and several wounded arrived at the hospital as a result of the occupation bombing of a house for the Kassab family in the Al-Daraj neighborhood, next to Al-Daraj Clinic in the center of the city.”

In the central Gaza Strip, medical sources at Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital in the city of Deir Al-Balah reported the arrival of martyrs and wounded as a result of Israeli aircraft targeting a house for the Abu Al-Kass family in the Bureij camp in the central Gaza Strip.

Eyewitnesses said that Apache helicopters were firing at Palestinian homes east of the Bureij camp, in the middle of the Gaza Strip, while local sources reported that an Israeli bombing targeted a house for the Abu Daqqa family east of Deir al-Balah, which led to a number of casualties.

In the south of the Gaza Strip, witnesses indicated that “occupation artillery targeted the areas of Al-Khirba, Musabah, and Oraiba in the city of Rafah,” and medical sources announced the martyrdom of two citizens in the occupation’s bombing of the Tal Al-Sultan neighborhood, west of the city of Rafah.

This comes the day after the number of martyrs in the Israeli massacre in the Nuseirat camp rose to 274 martyrs and the injury of 698 others, according to what was announced by the Palestinian Ministry of Health in Gaza.

The Ministry of Health in Gaza also announced on Sunday that the occupation committed 8 massacres in the Strip during the last 24 hours, claiming 283 martyrs and 814 injured, which brings the number of victims of the Israeli aggression to 37,084 martyrs and 84,494 injured since last October 7.

Targeting electricity generators

In this context, the Ministry of Health in Gaza launched an urgent distress call to the international community and its international and relief institutions to provide electric generators to hospitals in the Gaza Strip, explaining in a statement, “For 9 months, we have been relying on electric generators to supply hospitals with the necessary electrical energy around the clock after the destruction of the only power station in the Strip.” Gaza".

The statement issued today, Sunday, indicated that “a number of electrical generators in hospitals were subjected to major technical malfunctions that were difficult to repair, and the other number were directly destroyed by the brutal occupation,” noting that it expected “the electrical generators in the remaining hospitals, health centers, and drug warehouses to stop as a result of preventing the entry of necessary spare parts.” "to maintain it"

The statement confirmed that the Israeli occupation forces deliberately destroyed the electrical generators in the Al-Shifa Complex, the Nasser Complex, the Indonesian Hospital, and Kamal Adwan Hospital in northern Gaza, with the aim of putting them out of service.

The specter of famine

In the same context, the director of Kamal Adwan Hospital, Hossam Abu Safiya, warned of the specter of famine looming over the Gaza Strip, and explained in a statement issued today, Sunday, that “about 50 children suffering from malnutrition were counted in just one week, explaining that the health system in Gaza It is a target of the Israeli occupation, stressing, “But we are trying to resume medical services at a minimum.”

According to the United Nations World Food Programme, “9 out of every 10 children in the Gaza Strip suffer from acute food poverty,” while more than 37 children were martyred during the aggression as a result of starvation in a number of hospitals in the Gaza Strip, especially in Kamal Adwan Hospital, who was martyred. There were about 30 children inside.

Israel continues its war despite a decision by the UN Security Council to stop it immediately, and orders from the International Court of Justice to end the invasion of the city of Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip, and to take measures to prevent acts of “genocide” and improve the miserable humanitarian situation in Gaza.