990 health workers martyred since the start of the Israeli war on Gaza on October 7

Palestinian Health Minister Majed Abu Ramadan announced on Saturday evening that the number of health workers killed in the Palestinian territories has risen to more than 990 since the start of the Israeli war on the Gaza Strip on October 7.

This came in statements by Abu Ramadan distributed by his office, in which he condemned the martyrdom of 5 ministry employees in an Israeli bombing of its warehouses in the city of Rafah, south of the Gaza Strip.

Abu Ramadan said: “Palestine has lost more than 990 health workers since the beginning of the occupation’s aggression on the Gaza Strip on October 7, including doctors, specialists, nurses, support medical professionals, administrators and paramedics.”

He explained that "the occupation forces arrested more than 300 staff, while many hospitals were destroyed and put out of service."

He stated that the Israeli bombing also caused “130 ambulances to stop working, in addition to hundreds of violations against the entire health system in the West Bank.”

He added, "The deliberate targeting is added to the series of crimes and violence practiced by the occupation against health workers in various specialties, as well as treatment centers and ambulances."

He condemned Israel's continued targeting of "humanitarian health workers," saying: "The occupation is flouting all international and humanitarian laws."

He called on the international community and international humanitarian and health organizations to “increase pressure on the occupation authorities to stop the aggression immediately, open the crossings to allow the entry of various forms of health support, and also allow the exit of hundreds of patients and wounded who suffer from critical health conditions.”

Earlier on Saturday, the Ministry of Health in Gaza announced that “5 Ministry of Health employees were killed and others were injured as a result of targeting the ministry’s warehouses in the Musabah area of Rafah city in the southern Gaza Strip.”

Since the beginning of the war on the Strip, the Israeli army has targeted Gaza’s hospitals and health system, putting most of them out of service, endangering the lives of doctors, workers, patients and the wounded, according to Palestinian and international data.

According to the latest figures from the government media office in Gaza, 986 medical personnel from the Ministry of Health were killed as a result of the war on the Strip.

With full American support, Israel has been waging a devastating war in Gaza since October 7, leaving more than 137,000 Palestinian martyrs and wounded, most of them children and women, and more than 10,000 missing, amidst massive destruction and deadly famine.

In contempt of the international community, Israel continues the war, ignoring the UN Security Council resolution calling for an immediate halt, and the International Court of Justice’s orders to take measures to prevent genocide and improve the catastrophic humanitarian situation in Gaza.

(Anatolia)