Gaza, (The Palestine Information Centre)More than 1,799 Palestinians have been killed, including more than 583 children and 351 women, in the Israeli air strikes on the Gaza Strip, the Palestinian health ministry said in a statement issued on Friday afternoon.
A further 7,388 people have been wounded in the ongoing Israeli air strikes, including 1,901 children and 1,185 women.
Yusuf Abu al-Reesh, deputy health minister in Gaza, said “60% of the injuries caused by Israeli airstrikes in the Gaza Strip have impacted women and children.”
Deploring the substandard state of medical care in the blockaded Strip, he added: “All hospital beds have been exhausted, and both medications and medical supplies are on the verge of running out.”
For the seventh consecutive day, Israeli warplanes have launched hundreds of air raids on civilian houses and infrastructure in various areas of the Gaza Strip, leading to hundreds of casualties and vast destruction.
The strikes have also targeted 14 health institutions, including the Ministry of Health building, the Rimal Clinic, and the International Eye Center, and bombed 15 ambulances, the ministry said.
The airstrikes have caused the deaths of members of 28 families, 10 health workers, and eight journalists.
The situation is further complicated by fuel shortages and electrical outages affecting generators, the ministry added.
“There continues to be a lack of electricity to operate the health care system. This threatens the lives of all sick and injured people,” the health ministry added in the statement.
The health ministry also called for the opening of a “safe corridor to ensure the entry of urgent medical aid” into the territory’s hospitals, which are now overwhelmed with the dead and wounded.
