The wounded in Gaza ‘are dying without intervention’: Health Ministry official
Dr Marwan Al-Homs, the director of field hospitals in the Gaza Strip’s Ministry of Health, says the health system in the besieged enclave “is currently under destruction and annihilation.” “Our wounded and injured patients are unable to find treatment, and they are dying without any intervention,” he said.
Speaking at a press conference, he issued a “call for help” urging the international community to “save northern Gaza before it’s too late." He said that Israeli forces are destroying the northern Gaza governorate entirely and “committing massacres and acts of genocide against our people.”
“Hospitals cannot provide care due to the overwhelming number of casualties and the high death toll. Our hospitals have no capacity for injuries, intensive care units are filled with severe cases, and we are forced to work on a priority basis.”
“The neonatal units are overcrowded, with no space for any newborns or premature infants. Any patient requiring care is postponed, and some cesarean sections have been delayed until a bed becomes available for an infant in need.”
“Our wounded, injured, and sick individuals, as well as our medical staff, civil defence teams, and the Palestinian people, cannot find food; they have nothing to eat.”
He said that Israeli forces deliberately prevent the entry of fuel and that the amounts allowed in are insufficient to meet the needs of the people in Gaza.
Another tent fire death in Gaza
The funeral of 10-year-old Abdul Ruhman, who died from injuries in an Israeli strike that ignited a fire in a tent camp for the displaced next to the Al-Aqsa Hospital, has been held in Khan Younis.
His brother, Shaban al-Dalou, was burned alive while still attached to an IV drip for an injury from a previous attack.
UN expert on food: Israel is starving Gaza
UN Special Rapporteur on the Right to Food Michael Fakhri has spoken to reporters about his report that detailed Israel’s starvation campaign, affecting 2.3 million Palestinians.
He was asked about Israel’s claim that it is supplying enough food, over 1 million tons of food to Gazans. Here was his response:
- Israel’s rules on what is allowed into Gaza are opaque and absurd. It’s a system designed to be confused, to make it very difficult for aid to enter.
- Then if we look over the last year, whenever humanitarian aid actually makes it through, those convoys often are shot at and targeted by Israeli forces, even though those convoys are coordinating with the IDF.
- And then, even if those convoys get past that, civilians seeking aid have been shot at several times. I’ll add even more, Israel has imposed a full siege against Gaza, and especially northern Gaza, at several moments.
- So … even if it were true that Israel is allowing in a few more trucks today, that does not mean that they are not starving Palestinians in Gaza.
Israeli strike kills at least 30 in Jabalia: Wafa
The Palestinian news agency says at least 30 were killed, including 20 children and women, and more than 50 others were wounded, when the Israeli army bombed the Jabalia refugee camp in north Gaza.
Israeli military strikes Maghazi refugee camp
At least two Palestinians have been killed and others injured in the Israeli strikes on the Maghazi camp in the central Gaza Strip, according to the Palestinian news agency Wafa.
Death toll in Israeli attack on Jabalia rises to 33
Gaza’s civil defence says 33 Palestinians have been killed in Israeli raids on the Jabalia refugee camp. The government’s media office confirmed the number and said 21 of those killed were women.
