Gaza – Ma’an – The number of martyrs who succumbed to their wounds and were prevented by the occupation from traveling to receive treatment abroad due to the occupation’s closure of the Rafah border crossing for 72 days has risen to 292 martyrs. These martyrs were among the wounded who should have received treatment in hospitals outside the Gaza Strip, but they were martyred while waiting for the Rafah crossing to be opened for travel.
Since the occupation closed the Rafah crossing, more than 3,500 patients and wounded have been prevented from traveling to receive treatment in hospitals outside the Gaza Strip. It is worth noting that there are 25,000 transfer requests registered with the Ministry of Health under the item of traveling to receive treatment abroad. However, the occupation’s closure of the Rafah crossing prevents these people from traveling for treatment, which poses a risk to their lives and threatens their survival.
The health system is going through its worst phases in light of the occupatio
n’s plan and its premeditated intention to completely overthrow the health system and put all hospitals in the Gaza Strip out of service by occupying, targeting, destroying, burning, or completely blowing them up, as happened with Al-Shifa Medical Complex, Nasser Medical Complex, and Al-Rantisi, Al-Nasr, Al-Oyoun, Indonesian, Kamal Adwan, Al-Awda, Al-Quds, Abu Yousef Al-Najjar, and European hospitals, and other hospitals that the occupation forced out of health service and forced their medical staff to leave them. The occupation also killed 500 medical personnel and arrested 310 medical personnel in its prisons so far. The
government media condemned the occupation’s removal of the Rafah crossing from service and depriving more than 25,000 wounded and sick people from traveling to receive treatment abroad. We call on all international and human rights institutions to condemn this heinous crime that threatens the lives of patients and the wounded.
He held the occupation and the US administration fully respons
ible for the continued closure of the crossings and contributing to the worsening of the humanitarian and health situation in the Gaza Strip, especially depriving the wounded and sick from receiving treatment in hospitals abroad.
He called on the international community, the United Nations, various international organizations and all countries of the free world to pressure the occupation and the US administration to open the crossings immediately and urgently before a new humanitarian disaster occurs on top of the already catastrophic and critical situation in the Gaza Strip.
Source: Maan News Agency