Israeli Blockade Still Occurs, Gaza Government Calls For 6,000 Seriously Injured Victims Treated Abroad

Gazans are in refugee camps. (Twitter/@UNHumanRights)

JAKARTA - The government in Gaza has called for 6,000 seriously injured victims to be treated abroad amid a humanitarian catastrophe due to the blockade and Israeli attacks that are still ongoing. Through a statement, the media office in Gaza explained “ disaster situation ” in the health sector as a result of the Israeli attack had occurred since October 7. According to him, 30 hospitals in the enclave could not operate when more than 58,000 people were injured by Israeli aggression. "We ask our brothers and sisters in Egypt to immediately open the Rafah border and allow the evacuation of 6,000 seriously injured victims from Gaza to receive treatment because hospitals in the Gaza Strip are unable to serve so many patients," he said, quoted from Anadolu via Antara, Monday, January 8. Only 10-20 injured victims are said to be allowed to be evacuated every day. This situation further burdens the injured Palestinians, whose numbers continue to grow, as quoted in the news. The media office also called on the international community, particularly the United States, to pressure Tel Aviv to stop the “ genocide war ” against the helpless Palestinian people. According to a statement by the Ministry of Health in Gaza, Israel attempted to destroy the Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital in Deir al-Balah in the central Gaza Strip, using a drone (UAV). Israel continues to attack Gaza following a cross-border attack launched by Palestinian resistance group Hamas on October 7 that killed at least 22,800 Palestinians and injured more than 58,400 others.

Meanwhile, nearly 1,200 Israelis are believed to have died in Hamas attacks. Israel's intense attacks have caused destruction in Gaza, with 60 percent of the infrastructure there damaged or destroyed and nearly 2 million residents displaced amid the food, clean water and medicine crisis.