Gaza’s health system “very fragile” with increased killings at the first aid point: ICRC | Israeli conflict news

Israeli attacks on aid distribution sites send an increase in the number of victims to hospitals. ICRC says.

The ICRC has warned that the Gaza healthcare system is “very fragile” amid the ongoing Israeli war.

The organization said in a statement on Sunday that the pocket hospitals are in urgent need of protection and reinforcement amid the bombing and Israel on the continuous blockade. He added that the regime is facing increasing pressure due to the increased rates of injuries from Israeli attacks at assistance points.

ICRC said in a statement on Sunday: “In the last two weeks, the Red Cross Hospital in Rafah was forced to activate the procedures of collective accidents 12 times, as he obtained large numbers of patients with holiday wounds and fragments,” ICRC said in a statement on Sunday.

“The vast majority of patients of recent incidents said they were trying to access the auxiliary distribution sites,” he said.

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Hundreds of Palestinians have been killed by Israeli fire around the relief distribution sites run by the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation, which is backed by the United States and Israel (GHF) since its launch on May 27.

The organization to the United Nations and other independent agencies overthrew the aid distribution efforts after a siege of 11 weeks of pocket, which prompted many warnings faced by many Gaza people now famine.

The government media office in Gaza said on Sunday that the death toll from the events focused on the relief sites in GHF has risen to 125.

“An increase in hostilities”

Hamas office said it is running 13 people were killed and 153 wounded In the latest attacks. It is reported that the Israeli forces had opened fire on civilians who gathered near the relief distribution centers east of the sheep and the Gaza Valley Bridge, in the center of Gaza.

The witness, Abdullah Nour El -Din, told the news agency to Agence France -Presse that “people started gathering in the Rafah area early in the morning.

“After about an hour and a half, hundreds moved towards the site and the army opened the fire,” he said.

The Israeli army said it had shot people “continued to advance in a way that was at risk,” despite the warnings.

GHF statement said that there were no accidents “in any of our three sites” on Sunday.

“Urgent work”

The Red Cross also expressed concern that the intense conflict is to endanger the few functional medical facilities in the pocket.

“The last days have witnessed an increase in hostilities about the remaining few and functional hospitals,” he said in the statement.

“This has made the patient’s transfer between the facilities a growing challenge, and in many cases, patients cannot obtain intensive or specialized care they need.”

The ICRC has warned that further loss in lives is inevitable without an urgent procedure and called for the protection of health care infrastructure and employees.

“It is necessary to take all possible steps to support their work, ensure their safety, and ensure that they are not deprived of the vital resources needed to carry out their work.”