2,000 Medical Staff In Gaza Strip Have No Food To Break Fast

Medical staff working in the Gaza Strip, Palestine. (Anadolou Ajesi)

JAKARTA - The Palestinian Ministry of Health on Monday said 2,000 medical staff working in hospitals in the northern Gaza Strip had no food to break the fast while still working on their duties on the first day of Ramadan fasting.

"Medicians were severely exposed to hunger that hit the northern Gaza Strip," Palestinian Health Ministry spokesman Ashraf al-Qudra said in a statement.

He called on international aid organizations to immediately move to provide food for medical staff.

On Monday (11/3), Palestinians in Gaza, such as Muslims around the world, under Israel's continuing bombing of the Gaza Strip, made it the toughest month for them because they had to evacuate and lack food, water, and most basic necessities.

Israel has launched a deadly military strike on the Gaza Strip since a cross-border attack on October 7 by Palestinian resistance groupHamas, which killed nearly 1,200 people.

As a result of Israeli military attacks more than 31,100 Palestinians, mostly women and children, died in Gaza, and more than 72,700 others were injured in mass destruction and shortages of basic necessities.

Israel has also imposed a blockade crippling the Gaza Strip, causing its residents, particularly in northern Gaza, to be on the verge of starvation.

According to the Palestinian Ministry of Health, at least 27 people have died from malnutrition and dehydration in Gaza due to an Israeli blockade.

The Israeli war forced 85 percent of Gaza's population to flee amid a blockade crippling most access to food, clean water, and medicines, while 60 percent of infrastructure in the enclave has been damaged or destroyed, according to the United Nations.

Israel is accused of committing genocide in the International Court (ICJ). The ICJ's interim decision in January ordered Tel Aviv to stop genocide and take action that guarantees humanitarian aid to civilians in Gaza.