Director of Hospitals in Gaza: The situation is becoming more complex and ensuring patients’ needs has become almost impossible

Director General of Hospitals in the besieged Gaza Strip, Muhammad Zaqout, confirmed that the situation is becoming more complex and ensuring the needs of the sick and injured has become almost impossible, due to the large numbers of wounded as a result of the Israeli occupation’s ongoing aggression for the thirtieth day and its prevention of the entry of fuel, medicines and medical supplies.

Zaqout noted in statements today that the occupation is deliberately attacking hospitals and medical staff with direct bombardment, and to exacerbate the catastrophic situation in light of preventing the entry of fuel, it is deliberately targeting solar energy systems in the vicinity of Al-Shifa Hospital so that they will not be benefited from. He warned that all hospitals will soon cease service as a result of lack of fuel and cessation of standby generators.

Zaqout stressed the need for the international community to expedite the introduction of basic aid and fuel to Gaza Strip, indicating that the aid that has entered so far is scarce and does not include fuel and does not meet needs, and that no quantity of it has reached the north of the Gaza Strip, which is considered the most needy area.

Zaqout appealed to the international community to protect hospitals and medical teams and deliver aid and fuel to them, so that they can perform their tasks and remove at least 400 wounded from Al-Shifa Medical Complex, the Indonesian Hospital, and Kamal Adwan Hospital through a safe corridor to Rafah crossing.

Inas Abdulkareem