Health in Gaza: More than 4,137 martyrs and more than 13,000 wounded in the Zionist aggression on Gaza

Posted on October 20, 2023

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The Ministry of Health the Gaza Strip announced today, Friday, that the number of martyrs in the Israeli enemy’s comprehensive and continuous aggression against the Palestinian people has risen to 4,137 martyrs, while the number of wounded has risen to more than 13,000.

It explained that more than a thousand citizens are missing in Gaza Strip since the start of the aggression, most of them children.

The spokesman for the Ministry of Health in Gaza, Ashraf Al-Qudra, explained that the Israeli enemy committed massacres against 521 families, claiming the lives of 3,109 martyrs, and a large number of their victims are still under the rubble.

He confirmed that the ministry had received 1,400 reports of missing persons under the rubble, including 720 children.

He confirmed that 7 hospitals and 21 health centers were out of service as a result of the Israeli targeting and the depletion of fuel. He also confirmed that 46 medical staff were martyred, 85 others were injured, and 23 ambulances were destroyed and out of service during the Israeli aggression.

Al-Qudra pointed out that the Ministry of Health is working to continue dialysis, childcare, childbirth, oncology, vaccination, and other services, in addition to treatment services for the wounded, with the exhausted capabilities available.