The Palestinian Ministry of Health in Gaza announced on Tuesday that the death toll from the Israeli war on the region has risen to 27,585 martyrs and 66,978 injured since October 7, 2023.
This was stated in a press release in which the ministry presented the latest statistics on the 123rd day of the Israeli aggression on Gaza.
The ministry explained that the Israeli occupation committed 12 massacres against families in the Gaza Strip, resulting in 107 martyrs and 143 injured in the past 24 hours. It was also noted that a number of victims remain under the rubble and on the streets, and that the occupation is preventing ambulance and civil defense crews from reaching them.
Siege on Nasser Hospital
In a related context, the spokesman for the Ministry of Health in Gaza, Ashraf al-Qidra, stated that medical staff, patients, and evacuees in the Nasser Medical Complex are without food, and there is an acute shortage of surgical supplies and threads. He pointed out that the electricity generators at the complex will stop within 4 days due to fuel shortages.
He added that ambulance crews are risking their lives to save the wounded due to the occupation’s prevention of ambulance movement, as the siege on the Nasser Medical Complex is intensified.
Al-Qidra mentioned that the occupation is putting the lives of 300 medical staff members, 450 injured individuals, and 10,000 evacuees at direct risk.
Meanwhile, Naheed Abu Ta’ima, the director of Al-Jirah Surgical Hospital in the Nasser Complex, told Al Jazeera that the Israeli forces continue to intensively fire in the vicinity of the complex. Since the hospital was besieged nearly two weeks ago, 630 wounded individuals have arrived, most of them with severe injuries.
He explained that they face significant and dangerous challenges, including a shortage of medical staff and a severe fuel shortage, endangering the lives of patients and the injured.
The Israeli army has been waging a devastating war on Gaza since October 7, 2023 – the majority of the casualties being children and women, according to Palestinian authorities. This has caused immense destruction and an unprecedented humanitarian catastrophe, according to the United Nations.
