Gaza’s health ministry has described the situation in the northern Gaza Strip as “literally like hell,” as ‘Israel’s’ ongoing ground offensive and siege have turned hospitals into “mass graves.”
“The situation is literally like hell,” said Munir al-Barsh, the director general of the Ministry of Health in Gaza, on Sunday. He said daily Israeli attacks and the regime’s ban on food deliveries to medical staff trapped in the north’s hospitals have created a dire humanitarian crisis.
Several civilians were injured early this morning in an Israeli airstrike targeting a house in the Shujaiya neighborhood of Gaza City, according to local sources. pic.twitter.com/EATlg1zs1f
— Quds News Network (@QudsNen) January 13, 2025
“Hospitals in northern Gaza have turned into mass graves,” al-Barsh added, noting that the offensive and the destruction of hospitals, infrastructure, and any sign of life in the north are aimed at emptying the region of its residents.
According to al-Barsh, 5,000 people have been killed or gone missing, while 9,500 others have been injured since the start of Israel’s offensive on the north of Gaza in early October 2024. The regime’s forces have also abducted about 2,300 people, including 65 medical staff, during the ongoing Israeli agression.
Another morning of grief and tears in Gaza as Israel’s genocide campaign continues for the sixteenth month in a row. pic.twitter.com/TKgXZxn9bl
— Quds News Network (@QudsNen) January 13, 2025
Al-Barsh slammed the “disgraceful” silence of the international community on ‘Israel’s’ atrocities, which he said have “deepened the suffering of innocent civilians.”
‘Israel’ launched a brutal war on Gaza on October 7, 2023, after the Palestinian resistance movement Hamas waged the surprise Operation Al-Aqsa Flood against the occupying entity in response to the Israeli regime’s decades-long campaign of bloodletting and devastation against Palestinians.
The regime’s bloody onslaught on Gaza has so far killed at least 46,565 Palestinians, mostly women and children, and injured more than 109,660 others. Thousands more are also missing and presumed dead under rubble, according to the Palestinian health ministry.
Despite talks of a ceasefire agreement around the corner, Israel continues to perpetrate massacres against innocent civilians in Gaza. This was the scene a couple of minutes ago following an Israeli airstrike on the al-Daraj neighborhood of Gaza City. pic.twitter.com/2QrEgipc4u
— Quds News Network (@QudsNen) January 13, 2025
However, a study by the UK’s Lancet medical journal estimates the actual number of deaths in the war is much higher than the official toll, suggesting the ministry’s figures likely undercounted the death toll by 41 percent in the first nine months of the conflict as Gaza’s healthcare infrastructure unraveled.
Source: Agencies (edited and translated by Al-Manar English Website)
