Ministry of Health in Gaza: Israeli occupation deliberately targets medical staff

OCCUPIED PALESTINE, Oct. 11 (YPA) – The Ministry of Health in the Gaza Strip confirmed, on Wednesday, that the Israeli occupation deliberately targets medical staff, health institutions, and ambulances and weakens their capabilities.

Ministry spokesman Ashraf Al-Qudra said in a press statement that medical teams work in dangerous and unsafe conditions and insist on performing their duty towards their people.

Al-Qudra called on international bodies to take effective steps to protect medical teams, health institutions and ambulances.

At dawn today, the occupation warplanes targeted an ambulance during the evacuation of the injured next to Al-Karama Towers.

The spokesman explained the attack on the ambulance shelling resulted in the death of 2 citizens and the injury of 2 paramedics.

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