Gaza Ministry of Health: This comes as the health system in Gaza continues to suffer ongoing suffering for three years as a result of the systematic medical genocide

Gaza Ministry of Health:

▪This comes as the health system in Gaza continues to suffer ongoing suffering for three years as a result of the systematic medical genocide, while the Israeli occupation, through its spokesmen, continues to make false and misleading claims alleging the presence of armed men or the storage of weapons inside hospitals and health facilities.

▪We affirm the denial of these repeated fabrications in full, and note that recycling these worn-out pretexts is nothing but the manufacture of false justifications aimed at covering up the Israeli war machine and paving the way to continue undermining what remains of the health components and destroying them.

▪These misleading claims, repeated openly, come as the aggression enters its third consecutive year of systematic medical genocide and direct targeting of the health system in the Gaza Strip, which has resulted in the destruction of most hospitals, putting them out of service, and has eliminated the health capabilities that were built over decades.

In this context, we emphasize the following:

▪Recycling these pretexts at this time is nothing but an open attempt to create media cover and flimsy justifications for the Israeli war machine, in preparation for continuing to undermine what remains of the health system and attacking what remains of hospitals and medical centers.

▪What exists inside the hospitals and medical centers operating today is nothing but wounded and sick people struggling with death, and medical and humanitarian staff working with the most basic resources and capabilities and under extremely harsh exceptional conditions to provide the minimum medical care amid a severe shortage of medicines and requirements for providing health care.

▪The Israeli occupation has not only sufficed itself with the suffocating siege, preventing the entry of medicine and medical supplies, and obstructing the travel of thousands of wounded and sick people to receive treatment abroad, but it also insists on continuing to pursue health care even in its last remaining refuges.

▪We reaffirm in full that the doors of all hospitals and health facilities have been, and remain, open without exception to all international organizations and UN, human rights and humanitarian institutions to enter and closely examine the nature of work inside them and verify these false claims, and the constant evidence that these facilities carry nothing but the pain of our people's sons and daughters and the message of our humanitarian staff.

▪We call on the international community, UN and human rights institutions, and all free people of the world to intervene urgently and immediately to restrain the Israeli machine of destruction and provide effective and direct international protection for medical staff and institutions and to stop the policy of systematic disinformation that legalizes the shedding of the blood of the wounded and medical staff inside what remains of treatment places.