GAZA, (Palestine Foundation Information Center) A paramedic from the Palestinian Red Crescent Society was injured on Monday evening while responding to a rescue call following an Israeli strike on a home near the University College, southwest of the Al-Zaytoun neighborhood in Gaza City.
The Red Crescent reported that paramedic Diaa Mohammed Suleiman Al-Bayouk sustained shrapnel wounds to his right shoulder from an artillery shell. He was immediately transferred to Al-Quds Hospital, where his condition was described as stable.
The General Directorate of Civil Defense in the Gaza Strip condemned the Israeli occupation’s ongoing disregard for international humanitarian law and treaties, pointing to its consistent refusal to approve the majority of coordination requests submitted by the directorate through international and humanitarian organizations since the end of the last ceasefire in March.
According to the directorate, the Israeli occupation has only approved 10% of a total of 300 coordination requests filed via humanitarian organizations.
It stressed that Israel’s rejection of these field coordination requests for humanitarian response has resulted in the deaths of more than 2,500 civilians who were injured in targeted areas.
The Civil Defense called on the international community to pressure the Israeli occupation to comply with and respond to coordination requests for its humanitarian missions.
Since October 7, 2023, Israel, backed by full US support, has continued its assault on the Gaza Strip, in what has been internationally described as a genocide. The campaign includes killing, starvation, destruction, and forced displacement, in defiance of International Court of Justice orders to halt operations and abide by international law.
The offensive has left over 213,000 Palestinians killed or wounded, the vast majority of them women and children, with more than 9,000 missing and hundreds of thousands displaced.
