Palestinian Red Crescent: The situation in Gaza is catastrophic

Occupied Al-Quds, (ST) – The Palestine Red Crescent Society confirmed that the situation in the besieged Gaza Strip is catastrophic, and urgent international intervention is necessary to stop the Israeli occupation’s aggression and allow aid to enter the Strip.

Nibal Farsakh, spokeswoman for the Palestinian Red Crescent said in statements on Wednesday that the humanitarian conditions are catastrophic in Gaza Strip as a result of the occupation’s continued aggression against it for the eleventh day.

She added that the numbers of martyrs and injured are very large and exceed the hospitals’ capacity to absorb and there is suffering due to shortage of medicines and medical supplies, noting that the medical teams are working around the clock.

Farsakh indicated that there is an urgent need to bring humanitarian aid into Gaza Strip, whose people are suffering from a severe shortage of bread, foodstuffs, and potable water. She added that the power outage that threatens all service institutions to stop their services after their reserve stock of fuel runs out, which the occupation also prevents from bringing into the Gaza Strip.

Farsakh called on the international community to put pressure on the occupation to stop its destructive aggression that affects every inch of Gaza Strip, and its attempts to forcibly displace its people. She also called on the international community to force the occupation to open the Rafah crossing and allow humanitarian and medical aid to enter Gaza Strip.

For his part,  Spokesman for Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital in Gaza, Khalil Al-Dakran, said: Among the martyrs whose bodies arrive at the hospital are entire families, and the numbers of injured people are large and there is no longer rooms for them, therefore, we opened a primitive field hospital in the hospital yard, and our capabilities are almost exhausted.

Al-Dakran called on the international community to stand with Gaza Strip in the face of the Israeli occupation aggression and to send medical teams. He warned that the Strip is facing a real catastrophe if aid does not reach hospitals.

Raghda Sawas