IOF murders civilians using white phosphorus, targets medical teams

By Al Mayadeen English
Source: Al Mayadeen
11 Oct 2023 10:33

The Palestinian Ministry of Health accuses the Israeli occupation of deliberately targeting medical teams and healthcare institutions.

Palestinians rescue a young girl from the rubble of a destroyed residential building following an Israeli airstrike, Tuesday, Oct. 10, 2023 (AP)

The Palestinian Ministry of Health reported that the Israeli occupation is deliberately targeting medical teams, healthcare institutions, and ambulances to stifle rescue operations.

The Health Ministry added that medical teams are working in dangerous and unsafe conditions, but they remain committed to their duties towards their people. Furthermore, the Ministry called on the international community to take effective measures to protect medical teams, healthcare institutions, and ambulances.

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The Palestinian Ministry of Health announced in its latest statistics that 950 people have been killed by Israeli occupation forces, including 260 children and 230 women, with around 2,650 injuries, as a result of the ongoing aggression in the Gaza Strip.

On the other hand, the spokesperson for the Civil Defense in Gaza, Mahmoud Basal, told Al Mayadeen that "the occupation is committing acts of genocide": adding that they were employing white phosphorus in their attacks against civilian targets, which is internationally prohibited under Protocol III of the Convention of Certain Conventional Weapons.

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He added that the occupation is committing acts of genocide amid an absence of any Arab intervention.

"The occupation is committing many massacres, with the latest being in the Al-Rimal neighborhood, which was considered relatively safe," Basal said: adding that there are many deaths in the northern parts of Gaza that are inaccessible to the Civil Defense teams.

Al Mayadeen's correspondent reported that the IOF targeted an ambulance killing two civilians and injuring paramedics near al-Karamah Towers.

Our correspondent added that this is not the first time the occupation has targeted ambulances, as it had previously bombed a car parked outside a hospital in the Gaza Strip.

Earlier this morning, UNOCHA (Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs) reported that 263,934 individuals in Gaza have been forced to evacuate their homes since the onset of the Israeli aggression against the region.

The Israeli occupation continues its aggression against Gaza for the fifth day in a row, confirming it launched more than 200 raids on the al-Furqan neighborhood in the northern Gaza Strip.

Al Mayadeen's correspondent in Gaza confirmed that Israeli occupation aircraft launched a series of attacks north and west of Gaza City, adding that heavy bombardment targeted the vicinity of the Port of Gaza.

Our correspondent indicated that Israeli occupation aircraft bombed a house in the Jabaliya refugee camp in the northern Gaza Strip and targeted the vicinity of the Red Crescent headquarters and al-Sikka Street in the same town.

According to Al Mayadeen's correspondent, overnight Israeli raids destroyed al-Rimal and several other neighborhoods in Gaza, erasing its features, adding that the occupation aircraft bombed the Beit Hanoun police station in the northern Gaza Strip.

The separation fence area east of the Gaza Strip also witnessed continuous Israeli artillery shelling while occupation warplanes bombed the post office building in the center of Rafah.