Gaza Health Ministry: Israel’s occupation is terrorizing patients and staff at Al-Aqsa Hospital Health News

Ministry of Health announced in Gaza Yesterday Sunday, the Israeli occupiers used drones to intimidate patients and medical staff at Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital.she says global health organization Yesterday, on Sunday, it was forced to cancel a mission to deliver medical supplies to the northern Gaza Strip because it could not obtain security guarantees.

The organization added that this was the fourth time since December 26 that it had been forced to cancel a mission to deliver urgently needed medical supplies to Al-Awda Hospital and the Central Medicines Depot in northern Gaza.

“It has been 12 days since we last arrived in northern Gaza,” the World Health Organization's office in the Occupied Palestinian Territory said in a tweet posted on the X platform.

He added: “Violent bombings, movement restrictions and communication disruptions have made regular and safe delivery of medical supplies throughout Gaza, especially in the north, almost impossible.”

The World Health Organization said the handover, scheduled for yesterday Sunday, was intended to support the operations of five hospitals in the northern Gaza Strip.

Israeli government spokesman Elon Levy said he was not aware of the WHO's statement and referred questions to the military.

“I am shocked by the health needs and the extent of the devastation in northern Gaza,” said Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, the organization's director-general.

“Further delay will result in more deaths and more suffering,” he wrote on the X platform.

Al Aqsa Martyrs Hospital

The International Rescue Committee said in separate comments that its emergency medical teams and the Palestinian Medical Aid Charity were forced to evacuate and cease activities at Shuhada Al-Aqsa Hospital in the central Gaza region due to increased Israeli military operations in the area.

The World Health Organization stated that Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital (in the central Gaza Strip) has lost many employees, and only about 30% of its employees were working before the Israeli evacuation order.

This is according to a report published by the United Nations News website after a team from the World Health Organization and the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) visited Al-Aqsa Hospital yesterday (Sunday).

According to the report, Sean Casey, coordinator of the WHO emergency medical team, said, “The scene in the hospital is chaotic and it is located close to the area that was evacuated yesterday (Saturday).”

He added that the hospital has lost many employees and is now working with about 30% of the staff that were in the hospital just days ago.

A few days ago, the Israeli army issued an order through aerial leaflets calling for the evacuation of the area around the hospital in Deir al-Bala.

Yesterday Sunday, the Gaza Health Ministry said in a statement that the Israeli occupation was terrorizing patients and medical staff at Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital through drones.

She pointed out that the Israeli procession was firing heavily into various areas and courtyards of Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital, targeting everyone who moved, and explained that the wounded and sick were fleeing the hospital under Israeli fire.

On Sunday, Anadolu Agency journalists monitored Israeli air, land and sea attacks on the Gaza Strip, some of which targeted the city of Deir al-Balah (center), causing casualties including children, who were transferred to the Gaza Strip. KSA Hospital.

Casey explained that the hospital sometimes sees “hundreds of victims a day in a small emergency department, and yesterday (Saturday) there was a doctor working all night.”

A World Health Organization official said: The hospital director spoke to us and said his only request was to protect the hospital, even though many of his staff had left the hospital and the hospital was under tremendous pressure. The international community ensured that this hospital and others like it were protected from bombing and evacuations and that staff could continue to work.

Withdraw employees

On Saturday evening, Doctors Without Borders announced the withdrawal of its staff from central areas of the Gaza Strip, including the Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital, amid increasing attacks by Israeli forces.

On Monday morning, the Gaza Strip's Ministry of Health issued a brief statement on Telegram, revealing that hospitals had treated 73 martyrs and 99 wounded in the past 24 hours.

The UN report explains that the WHO team transported medical supplies to support 4,500 patients requiring dialysis for three months and 500 patients requiring trauma treatment.

Mr Casey said the organization intended to send a medical team to the hospital, saying: “We are here to deliver some supplies but also to make the necessary arrangements to send an emergency medical team to provide support, and we hope to do so next week. Let’s add more human resources to this hospital.”

According to Palestine, Israel has been waging a devastating war in the Gaza Strip since October 7 last year, which as of yesterday Sunday had left 22,835 martyrs and 58,416 injured, mostly children and women, and damaged infrastructure. to massive destruction, causing an unprecedented humanitarian disaster. and UN sources.