Al-Kaila warns: All in the Nasser Medical Complex in Gaza are facing danger of genocide by the Israeli occupation

The Palestinian Minister of Health Mai Al-Kaila warned in a statement tonight that the Nasser Medical Complex, in Khan Yunis to the south of the Gaza Strip, along with its medical staff, patients, and the remaining displaced persons sheltering there, are subjected to an ongoing crime of genocide by the Israeli occupation.

The minister warned, according to WAFA News gency, that the Israeli occupation aims to destroy the Nasser Hospital and get rid of everyone inside by using every possible method, including attacking it with missiles, detaining the medical staff, forcing the displaced persons who sought refuge there to leave, ceasing its medical services and cutting off its power, which left oxygen-dependent patients without oxygen.

Al-Kaila added that the Nasser Medical Complex currently constitutes the backbone for providing medical services in the Gaza Strip, pointing out that stopping its work is a disaster.

She condemned the Israeli occupation’s refusal to allow the displaced persons to leave the Complex through safe corridors, calling on the United Nations and international health institutions to intervene and make greater efforts to protect the hundreds of Palestinian civilians, patients, and medical staff.

The Minister of Health confirmed the serious and catastrophic situation at the Nasser Medical Complex, particularly after Israeli forces evacuated the maternity and surgical ward and forced patients to stay at the old Nasser Hospital building at gunpoint and amid ongoing bombardment, in violation of all humanitarian, legal and international norms and values.

She stressed that patients, including children, women and the elderly, are at risk of death at any moment as a result of the siege imposed on the complex. Four patients died at the hospital earlier today due to the complete power outage, which caused oxygen supplies to run out, she noted.