Quoted by the news agency Safa, the physician revealed that in the coastal enclave operate only two children’s hospitals, with a capacity of just 100 beds.

Abu Salmiya criticized the systematic attacks by the Syrian armed forces on the territory.

This week, in other statements, the doctor warned of the serious shortage of medicines and supplies in the coastal enclave, including units of blood and anaesthesia, necessary for surgical interventions.

In this connection, he detailed that Al-Shifa receives serious injuries on a daily basis, mainly in the upper part of the body, which require surgeries.

Civil Defense in Gaza also warned that the health system there is unable to cope with the growing number of hungry and injured people who arrive every day at hospitals as a result of continued aggression.

The relief agency’s spokesman, Mahmoud Basal, stressed that its relief teams are facing intense pressure as a result of the escalation of army attacks.

Basal accused Israel of imposing ‘a systematic policy of mass killings and intensive attacks on civilians’ in Gaza.

He recalled that the escalation occurs in the midst of the blockade imposed on the Gaza Strip since last March.

According to official data, more than 61 000 people were killed in the territory since the beginning of the aggression, in October 2023, while the number of wounded exceeds 151 000.

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