Tel Aviv, October 31 (IANS). Gaza’s health ministry said 8,525 Palestinians have been killed by Israeli military strikes since the October 7 Hamas attacks.
Health ministry spokesman Ashraf al-Qudra said in a statement on Tuesday that 130 of the dead were health workers. The statement also said that 15 hospitals were destroyed.
At least 32 health care centers were also destroyed and are not functioning, the statement said. Gaza’s Al-Shifa Hospital said that due to fuel shortage, the hospital’s generators would shut down, causing a major health disaster.
Shifa Hospital spokesperson Mahdit Abbas told IANS that 50,000 displaced people were at Shifa Hospital. Israel’s allegation that the hospital is a base for Hamas fighters is completely false and baseless.
Abbas further said, “The Israeli military could not release a single photo of the fighters hiding in the hospital. They went to the world of imagination and artificial intelligence to support what they had drawn in their imagination.”
The spokesperson for Al-Shifa Hospital also invited journalists from around the world and the International Red Cross to visit the hospital and see for themselves whether the hospital was captured by fighters.
It is noteworthy that Israel had issued a statement that Al-Shifa Hospital in Gaza Strip was one of the major bases for Hamas terrorist operations targeting Israel.
–IANS
abm
