GAZA, (PIC)
The health ministry in Gaza said on Tuesday that the Israeli occupation army committed, over the last hours, 17 massacres in the Gaza Strip, including in Rafah, which resulted in the martyrdom of at least 207 civilians and the injury of 450 others.
In a news conference, spokesman for the health ministry Ashraf al-Qudra pointed out that there are a large number of victims still being burried under the rubble of homes or lying on roads.
Spokesman Qudra told journalist that the death toll from Israeli attacks, which have been going on for 67 days, soared to 18,412 martyrs, while the number of the wounded climbed to 50,100.
Qudra said that the Israeli occupation forces (IOF) persists in preventing ambulances from evacuating the wounded and leaving them bleeding to death.
The spokesman affirmed that the IOF stormed the Kamal Adwan Hospital today after besieging and bombing it for days and forced at gunpoint the male patients, medical staff and civilians to gather in the facility’s courtyard.
He added that the IOF ordered the officials of the hospital to hand over a firearm belonging to the security guard of the facility, warning that the Israeli army would use this weapon to fabricate claims against the hospital as it already did with the Al-Shifa Hospital.
He also said that the patients and civilians inside the Al-Awda Hospital, which is under Israeli siege and attack, are deprived of water, food and electricity, while Israeli forces prevent the evacuation of any patients or wounded citizens to it.
