Minister of Health Mai Alkaila said that the Israeli occupation and the international community bear responsibility for the lives of patients, medical staff, and displaced persons in Al-Shifa Medical Complex, warning of a massacre that may be committed inside it. Minister Al-Kaila indicated that the timid move, as well as the complete silence of some countries, encouraged the Israeli occupation to storm the medical complex, in flagrant violation of international law. Alkaila said that the occupation forces’ storming of the Al-Shifa Medical Complex was a ‘crime against humanity.’ She explained that the storming was part of a series of crimes committed against the complex itself, as a strict siege was imposed on it several days ago, during which more than five buildings inside were bombed, as shells were fired at the wounded, displaced people, and medical teams present there. Minister Alkaila added that thousands of patients, displaced people, and medical personnel currently don’t know what may be coming t
o them. She stressed that the new Israeli crime comes after the occupation army committed massacres against hospitals, medical staff, and ambulances, which left more than 700 dead and wounded. The Israeli occupation army killed 198 doctors, nurses, and paramedics, targeted 55 ambulances, and put 25 hospitals out of service since the beginning of the aggression against the Gaza Strip. The health minister discussed with the International Committee of the Red Cross and the World Health Organization the situation in the Al-Shifa Complex, stressing the need for effective and rapid action to rescue patients, medical staff and displaced people, secure them, and neutralize them from any military movements, in accordance with what is stipulated in international agreements and international humanitarian law, and international human rights law.

Source: En – Palestine news & Information Agency – WAFA