In a statement, the official said that 70 percent of the injured are women and minors.
He regretted the lack of response to the serious crisis due to the lack of equipment, medicines and supplies of all kinds, stemming from the blockade and the bombardments launched by the neighboring country.
Medical sources, quoted by the official news agency Wafa, indicated that only this Thursday 95 Palestinians were killed during the military incursions.
In the midst of the war campaign, the Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas) announced this morning that it launched a barrage of rockets against Tel Aviv in ‘response to the Zionist massacres’.
The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) announced that it had detected three missile launches from the coastal enclave, one of which was intercepted and the other two landed in open areas.
As part of the campaign, the military entered the Strip yesterday for the first time since the beginning of January 19 truce, and a few hours ago expanded its operations there, a military statement confirmed.
IDF spokesman Avichai Adrei said that the soldiers were deployed in the south and center of the enclave, as well as, once again, around the so-called Netzarin corridor, created by the army to cut the territory into two.
Meanwhile, the electronic version of the daily Yedioth Ahronoth reported that the IDF is expanding the buffer zone in northern Gaza, especially along the border with Israel and the city of Beit Lahia.
Against such backdrop, the Palestinian Health Ministry warned that the Strip and the West Bank are facing a health catastrophe, as raids continue and the blockade gets harsher. Such actions have led to an almost total collapse of the system in the coastal enclave and put hospitals and medical centers in the West Bank under enormous pressure in the face of continued escalation, the institution denounced in a statement.
The system is suffering from a severe shortage of medicines, supplies and fuel needed to run equipment and generators, it stressed.
Al-Shifa Medical Complex director Mohammed Abu Salmiya yesterday called on the world to stop the Israeli aggression against Gaza and warned of the collapse of the sector under destruction and lack of supplies.
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