The director of health in Gaza, Munir Al -Barash, warned today, Monday, that the forced evacuation of hospitals imposed by Israel exposes the lives of hundreds of patients to danger, stressing that doctors and medical cadres decided to stay alongside patients, especially children and intensive care cases.
Al -Barash said, in a press statement today, that more than 200 patients in intensive care need industrial breathing devices, noting that their evacuation means killing them directly, adding: “We will not be discharged from our hospitals and we will not leave our patients, the alternative is death.”
Al -Barash pointed out that hospitals in Gaza are suffering from a severe shortage of basic resources, which prevents hundreds of urgent surgeries, at a time when the spread of diseases and epidemics is increasing due to water pollution.
He pointed out that more than 100 cases of “Ghilan Barre” syndrome were recorded, amid the inability of the medical crews to diagnose new diseases caused by the deteriorating health conditions.
Al -Barash called on the international community to assume its legal and humanitarian responsibilities, and to implement the Geneva Conventions to protect health cadres and the civilian population, stressing that hospitals are not safe from the bombing.
Al -Barrah’s comments coincided with Israel’s call to the residents of Gaza City to displace the south through Al -Rashid Street towards the Al -Mawasi area, as a humanitarian area, which was rejected by the health authorities in the Strip as a form of forced displacement.
Since October 7, 2023, Israel has committed genocide in Gaza, including killing, starvation, destruction and forced displacement, ignoring all international calls and orders to the International Court of Justice to stop it.
This extermination left 64,455 martyrs, 162 thousand and 776 wounded Palestinians, most of them children and women, more than 9 thousand missing, hundreds of thousands of displaced people, and the famine of the lives of 393 Palestinians, including 140 children.