GAZA (Palestine Foundation Information Center) The Director of Field Hospitals at the Ministry of Health in the Gaza Strip, Marwan Al-Hams, said the health sector is being subjected to deliberate Israeli targeting topped by preventing the entry of medicines as well as besieging and bombing hospitals and arresting medical staff.
Al-Hams told Qatar News Agency (QNA) on Thursday that the Israeli occupation forces (IOF) aim to destroy what has remained of the health infrastructure in Gaza, after destroying 75% of it, referring to the ongoing aggression on Kamal Adwan Hospital in the northern Gaza Strip, and the murder and arrest of doctors along with their families.
He explained that patients suffer greatly due to the lack of medicines, food and blankets, and the depletion of medicines, mostly affecting are those with chronic diseases, causing them serious complications, to the extent that some of them have lost their lives.
Al-Hams pointed to the increasing number of patients suffering from dehydration and malnutrition to the extent that some of them died of hunger.
He stated that the deteriorating situation has reached a level of severe shortage in medical laboratory supplies, noting that the IOF is preventing the entry of devices used to conduct medical examinations after most of them have been destroyed.
He called for placing pressure on Israel to stop its war on Gaza, so that the health sector can provide services to the Palestinian citizens.
