Sewage water flooding Nasser Hospit., food runs out amid Israeli siege

By Al Mayadeen English
Source: Al Mayadeen
12 Feb 2024 16:02

The spokesperson of the Palestinian health ministry in Gaza warns that over 10,000 people in the Nasser Medical Complex have run out of food amid the ongoing Israeli siege.

Medics treat Palestinians injured in an Israeli bombardment at the Nasser Medical Complex in Khan Younis in the southern Gaza Strip in December 2023. (AFP)

The Palestinian Ministry of Health in Gaza warned on Monday that sewage water is flooding the emergency department and hindering the work of medical teams at the Nasser Medical Complex in Khan Younis, with fears of it spreading to the radiology section.

In a statement, the ministry stressed the need to protect the technical staff to move within the premises of the health facility to repair the sewage network, as Israeli occupation forces are opening fire to kill any individual spotted moving outside its buildings.

The ministry's spokesperson, Ashraf al-Qudra, sounded the alarm on the complex's deteriorating situation, stating that Israeli snipers killed seven Palestinians and wounded 14 others, including members of the medical teams who tried to move inside the institution's courtyards.

Even Palestinians who attempted to cross into the complex to take shelter from the relentless Israeli strikes were shot at its gates.

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Additionally, al-Qudra revealed that, due to the Israeli nonstop bombing of the medical center's surroundings, ceilings in the recovery and operating rooms collapsed.

'International institutions must intervene'

Regarding the ongoing siege of the complex, he declared that food supplies for medical teams, patients, and displaced Palestinians at the Nasser Medical Complex had completely run out.

Al-Qudra had earlier expressed concern over the lives of 300 health staff workers, 450 wounded and sick patients, not to mention 10,000 others seeking refuge inside the complex.

The ministry's spokesperson urged international institutions to intervene and protect the complex and all the people it is housing.

In its latest report, the Ministry announced that the total number of Palestinian martyrs due to the ongoing Israeli genocide has risen to 28,340 on day 129 of the war, with injuries exceeding 67,984.