The Ministry of Health Monday evening announced that the number of slain Palestinians has risen to 12,916, while the number of wounded has risen to about 32,850, since the beginning of the comprehensive Israeli aggression against Palestinian people in the Gaza Strip and the West Bank on October 7th.
The Ministry explained, in its daily report on the aggression, that it is facing great difficulties in obtaining updated data for the 7th day in a row due to the interruption of communications services in the Gaza Strip, and the collapse of service and communications in hospitals in the northern Strip.
It indicated that the number of slain Palestinians in the Gaza Strip, as of Sunday’s evening, amounted to more than 12,700, including about 5,350 children, 3,250 women, and 695 elderly people, while the number of injured reached more than 30,000 injured.
Displaced people from the north said that corpses are in the streets, and as of November 15, more than 4,500 Palestinians are still missing, including 3,500 chi
ldren who are still missing and presumed to be trapped or died under the rubble.
205 health personnel and 36 civil defense personnel were killed, and more than 220 health workers were wounded. More than 60 ambulances were attacked, 55 of which were damaged and out of service.
The Ministry also added that the Israeli airstrikes yesterday carried out by the Israeli occupation on Al-Shifa Hospital continued, and at least one patient was arrested during inspection operations and interrogations conducted by the Israeli occupation forces.
Reports have said that the occupation forces continued to besiege and bomb the Indonesian Hospital and Al Awda Hospital in the northern Gaza Strip, killing and injuring a number of civilians.
The Ministry indicated that 26 of 35 hospitals in Gaza, and 52 of 72 primary health care clinics, or more than two-thirds, stopped working due to damage caused by bombing or lack of fuel, and the remaining nine hospitals are operating partially.
It explained that out of 24 hospitals that
have the capacity to receive inpatients in the north, there is one hospital, which is the Arab National Baptist Hospital in Gaza, which is currently working and receiving patients in light of great difficulties.
18 hospitals have been closed and evacuated since the start of the aggression, including three hospitals in the past three days: Al-Nasr, Rantisi, and Al-Quds.
Source: Palestine news and Information Agency – WAFA