In an interview with Voice of Palestine radio, Bassam Zaqout, director of Medical Aid in southern Gaza, warned of the increase in Israeli bombings against the territory and of famine due to the blockade imposed on the region.

“There is no safe place in Gaza,” the official stated, referring to the serious deterioration of the hospitals that still operate in the Strip. In this regard, he emphasized that doctors are operating with minimal resources because they suffer from a severe shortage of medical supplies, fuel, oxygen stations, and equipment.

The director of the Al-Shifa Medical Complex in Gaza, Mohammed Abu Salmiya, denounced that an average of five cancer patients die every day in the territory due to the lack of medical care caused by the Israeli aggression. “We are losing many patients and wounded due to the shortage of blood units,” he noted, highlighting the lack of medicines, supplies, drinking water, and fuel.

This morning, health authorities in the Gaza Strip accused the Israeli army of destroying the Noura Al-Kaabi Kidney Dialysis Hospital last night, the only one of its kind in the north of the territory. They emphasized that 41 percent of patients with kidney failure in the region have died since the beginning of the aggression in October 2023.

At the end of last month, the Gaza Ministry of Health revealed that the war led to the closure of 22 of the enclave’s 38 hospitals and a severe shortage of medicines. The agency stated that only 30 primary care centers are operating, out of a total of 105, and noted that the bed occupancy rate exceeds 106 percent.

“Currently, 50 operating rooms, out of a total of 104, are operating in catastrophic conditions,” the agency emphasized in a statement a few days ago. It also highlighted that 25 of the 34 oxygen stations in the Gaza Strip were destroyed, and called on the world for urgent help to address this crisis.

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