GAZA, (Palestine Foundation Information Center), Dozens of activists and residents held a protest on Wednesday outside Nasser Medical Complex in Khan Yunis, southern Gaza, demanding the provision of medicines and medical supplies and greater support for the health sector.
Participants in the protest, called by national and Islamic factions, carried signs urging the international community to provide the health sector with the supplies needed to save patients and the wounded.
Activist Sabreen Al-Jabari said the protest aimed to support Gaza’s health system and convey the voices of medical workers to the world.
“We came to stand beside them and carry their voice to the entire world, so that it assumes its responsibilities toward them,” she said.
Al-Jabari said Gaza’s health system was suffering from an acute shortage of beds, medicines and medical tests, and lacked the minimum supplies and equipment needed to save lives.
Rajab Awad, the mukhtar of the Awad family, said the protest shed light on the situation of Gaza’s health sector and the continuous deterioration it has faced since the beginning of the genocide.
He said patients in Gaza’s hospitals were suffering from a shortage of beds, while kidney patients lacked the tools and materials needed for dialysis, forcing them to wait for days before receiving treatment.
He added that many cancer patients lacked the radiopharmaceutical medicines needed to help limit the spread of the disease.
Gaza’s health system has suffered a severe decline in medical capacity as a result of Israel’s assault and the genocidal war that has continued for two years, alongside restrictions on the entry of aid and medical supplies into the enclave.
