Palestine Health Ministry calls to urgently transport 5,000 wounded outside Gaza

GAZA, Dec. 18 (YPA) – Spokesman for the Ministry of Health in Gaza, Ashraf Al-Qudra, called on the concerned authorities to provide a mechanism to urgently evacuate and transport 5,000 wounded people outside the Gaza Strip.

Al-Qudra said in a statement on Monday that the health and humanitarian situation in the shelter centers is catastrophic due to the spread of diseases and the lack of health care.

He renewed the Ministry’s demands for international institutions to provide medicines and fuel to operate hospitals.

The Ministry of Health in Gaza announced that the number of martyrs since the beginning of the war has risen to 18,000, including 7,739 children and 4,885 women, while the number of injured reached more than 51,000.

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