There are 20 trucks loaded with medicines and medical supplies. According to the UN, hospitals are “on the verge of collapse” and will only have electricity for the next two days. At least thirty Palestinians have been killed in recent hours after overnight attacks by Israel.
a third humanitarian aid convoy consisting of 20 trucks entered this Monday from the Rafah border crossing (Egypt) towards the Gaza Strip, after passing through another border post controlled by Israel to inspect the cargo, as reported by an Egyptian security source.
The trucks transport medicines, medical supplies and baby food, depending on the source. With today’s trucks, 54 have already arrived since last Saturday. Before the start of the war, in August, 400 trucks passed there every day.
This new convoy is a day after the Israeli army recognized that shot by “error” an Egyptian military post in the border area.
The head of the Red Crescent for North Sinai Governorate, Khalid Zayed, explained that the plan is to deliver about 40 trucks carrying food, medicine and other supplies are entering Gaza all this Monday.
Hospitals ‘on the brink of collapse’
Meanwhile, Gaza’s main hospital, Shifa Hospital, is “on the verge of collapse”, like other health facilities in the Gaza Strip, as a result of the lack of electricitymedicines, equipment and personnel, the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs warned.
In its daily report on the conflict in Gaza, the UN indicates that the hospital center is currently treating approximately 5,000 patients, while its theoretical capacity is 700, to which is to be added the 45,000 internally displaced persons housed in the facilities. “A large number of patients are being treated on the floor because there are not enough beds,” the report said.
The UN Agency for Palestinian Refugees (UNRWA) has warned about this There is only fuel left for the next two daysa fuel needed to power hospitals or water desalination plants.
Israel intensifies the bombing
According to the Gaza Ministry of Health, some 266 Palestinians have been killed in the past few hours, bringing the total number of deaths to 4,651 (1,873 boys and girls), while the number of injured stands at 14,245. About 1,400 people have been killed in Israeli and Hamas attacks. and more than 220 kidnapped.
In fact, the Israeli army has intensified the bombing in order to continue the ground attack. That same night, 30 people, including several minors, were killed in the Yabalia refugee camp, located in the north, as a result of airstrikes.
Source: EITB
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