The Palestinian Ministry of Health in Gaza launched an urgent distress call to the international community and its international relief institutions, to provide electric generators to hospitals in the Gaza Strip.

 

The ministry said in a post on its Facebook page: “It has been relying for nine months on electric generators to supply hospitals with the necessary electrical energy around the clock, after the usurping entity had destroyed the only power plant in the Gaza Strip.”

 

 

The Ministry confirmed that the forces of the usurping entity deliberately destroyed the electrical generators in Al-Shifa Hospital, Nasser Hospital, Indonesian Hospital, and Kamal Adwan Hospital in northern Gaza, in order to  put them out of service.

 

The Ministry continued: “The ambulance and emergency system are unable to respond to all calls to transfer the wounded from the targeted sites in the Central Governorate to Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital.”

She explained that the usurping entity “deliberately undermined the ambulance and emergency system by targeting 130 ambulances, and disabling dozens  due to the shortage of fuel and spare parts.”

 

It warned that Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital is currently operating with one generator, after one of the two main generators had broken down. Which threatens of a humanitarian health catastrophe.

 

Furthermore, the Director General of the Government Media Office in the Gaza Strip, Ismail Al-Thawabta, said: “The volume of wounded who arrived at Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital exceeds its capacity,” adding: “We send  a distress call to the international community and international organizations to save the hospital and provide  medical supplies and electrical generators to ensure the continuating provision  of service .”

 

It is worth mentioning that Al-Aqsa Martyrs Central Hospital is the only hospital in the central governorate of the Gaza Strip, that provides medical services to more than a million people, the majority of whom are displaced to the city of Deir al-Balah and four refugee camps in its vicinity and parts of the city of Khan Yunis, while the majority of health centers are out of service.