GAZA, (PIC)-- The brutal Israeli occupation army continued its monstrous aggression on the tiny Gaza Strip for the fourteenth successive day, killing around 800 Palestinians and wounding more than 3250 others, hundreds of them in serious condition.
According to Dr. Muaweyya Abu Hassanien, the director of the emergency department in the PA health ministry in Gaza Strip confirmed that at least 50% of the martyrs were children and women, adding that ambulance teams were unearthing new bodies of Palestinian civilians buried under the rubbles of their homes that were destroyed by the Israeli air strikes and tank shelling.
Paramedics and ambulance vehicles face big difficulties in reaching out to wounded Palestinian civilians, especially in the northern part of the coastal Strip where many Palestinian families believed to be killed or forced out of their homes at the hands of the IOF troops.
At least eight paramedics and a doctor were killed after IOF troops deliberately shot them as they tried to aid wounded children and women in various areas of the Gaza Strip.
Dr. Basim Naim, the PA minister of health, confirmed that Gaza hospitals face sharp shortage in medicine and medical equipment and couldn’t cope with the increasing number of Palestinian victims.
He also pointed out that 50% of the ambulance vehicles were either destroyed or suspended that, he added, doubles the burden on the Palestinian doctors and paramedics, urging an immediate help from doctors in neighboring Arab countries.
Tens of Arab doctors and surgeons had been waiting at the Rafah crossing point for nearly one week, and prepared to go into Gaza Strip to help their Palestinian colleagues, but the Egyptian authorities refused to allow them in.
However there were reports on Friday evening of 11 Arab doctors crossing the Rafah terminal into the Gaza Strip to help their Palestinian colleagues.
The intensive Israeli air, land, and sea shelling had targeted civilian homes in addition to schools run by the UNRWA were hundreds of Palestinian families sought a refuge. At least 30 Palestinian civilians were massacred in the UNRWA-run Al-Fakhora school in Jabalya city after Israeli warplanes shelled it.
Local mosques and civil infrastructure were also destroyed by the intensive Israeli bombardment. Local observes opined that the Israeli behavior in targeting civilians reflects their failure in defeating the Palestinian resistance despite the simple weapons they have compared to the Israeli state-of-the-art weapons.
The Israeli occupation government imposed media blackout on the Israeli casualties in the war in Gaza with the aim not to demoralize the Israeli public; but sources in the Palestinian resistance confirmed that tens of Israeli soldiers, including high-ranking officers were killed and wounded in the ongoing fighting.
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