RAMALLAH November 03. 2023 (Saba) -The Palestinian Ministry of Health announced today that the toll of martyrs and wounded among the Palestinian people as a result of the ongoing Zionist-American aggression on the Gaza Strip and the West Bank has risen to 9,299 martyrs and more than 25,000 wounded.
The Ministry added, during its daily report issued today, Friday, that 9,155 martyrs died in the Gaza Strip, and more than 24,000 were injured, and in the West Bank the number of martyrs rose to 144, and the wounded to more than 2,200, since the seventh of last October, more than 73. % of them are children, women and the elderly.
She pointed out that the Turkish Friendship Hospital stopped working as a result of the bombing and running out of fuel, noting that it is the only hospital for treating cancer patients, noting that 16 out of 35 hospitals stopped working as a result of the Zionist-American bombing and running out of fuel.
She explained that doctors are still forced to perform surgeries without anesthesia, including those who were injured as a result of the bombing and women who give birth by caesarean section.
Since October 7, the enemy authorities have prevented patients from leaving the Gaza Strip for treatment in Jerusalem hospitals and within the 1948 territories, including 2,000 patients with cancer.
As of October 29, about 1,950 citizens were reported missing, including at least 1,050 children, who may be trapped or martyred under the rubble waiting to be recovered.
The Ministry of Health said that the Civil Defense raised the issue of the decomposition of bodies under collapsed buildings, amid limited rescue missions, which raises humanitarian and environmental concerns, pointing out that humanitarian agencies and their employees faced major restrictions in providing humanitarian aid due to the ongoing aggression, restrictions on movement, and shortages of electricity, fuel, water, and medicines. .
The Palestine Red Crescent Society announced that, due to the fuel shortage, it was forced to reduce the number of ambulances it operates, and all humanitarian agencies and their employees faced significant restrictions in providing humanitarian aid, as humanitarian partners cannot safely reach people in need and the warehouses in which aid supplies are stored.
The ministry added that 117,000 displaced people, in addition to medical and health personnel and thousands of patients, reside in health facilities.
She stated that there are 1.5 million citizens internally displaced in Gaza, where about 690,000 citizens live in 149 emergency shelters designated for UNRWA, and four shelter centers belonging to the agency were bombed, hosting approximately 20,000 displaced people, and this led to the martyrdom of at least 23 citizens, Dozens have been injured since the start of the Israeli aggression, while about 50 UNRWA facilities were damaged and 72 employees were martyred.
121,750 citizens are staying in hospitals, churches and other public buildings, and about 99,150 in 82 non-UNRWA schools. The remaining 600,000 displaced people are staying with host families, with up to 150,000 citizens moving to shelter centers in the past few days in search of food. and basic services.
The Ministry indicated that about 35,000 housing units were completely destroyed, 165,000 units were partially destroyed, 15 health facilities and 51 primary health clinics were destroyed, 221 schools were destroyed, including 38 schools completely destroyed, and 42 UNRWA facilities were destroyed, including Places where the displaced took refuge, and 7 churches and 11 mosques were damaged as a result of the bombing.
In the West Bank, the World Health Organization documented 118 attacks on health care, affecting 99 ambulances, including 67 attacks that involved obstructing the provision of health care, 61 physical attacks against health teams, 19 attacks that involved obstructing the work and detaining health personnel and ambulances, and 12 An attack nvolving a military inspection of health personnel and facilities, since last October.
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