Dr. Munir al-Bursh, Director General of the Ministry of Health in the Gaza Strip, his entire family was injured and his daughter was killed yesterday evening in an Israeli bombardment that targeted his house in Jabaliya. The ministry announced the shooting death of a healthcare worker at Al-Awda Hospital in the northern Gaza Strip.

The director general of the Ministry of Health in Gaza was transferred to one of the medical points “after the occupying army destroyed all health system facilities in northern Gaza,” the same health official confirmed earlier.

The Ministry of Health announced today, Friday, that the Israeli army shot dead a worker at Al-Awda Hospital, which has been besieged for several days in the northern Gaza Strip.

The ministry explained in a brief statement on the Telegram platform that those trapped inside the hospital were “in a state of terror, arrest and torture”, noting that they were living without water, food or medicine.

Last Wednesday, the Israeli army turned Al Awda Hospital into a military barracks, keeping dozens of its medical staff, patients and displaced people inside, the ministry said.

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According to health and human rights organizations, the Israeli military has been waging a harsh and systematic campaign against Gaza’s hospitals and the entire medical sector, particularly in the north, since the start of the war on Gaza, injuring hundreds of thousands of people. , pregnant women, children and chronic patients without health services.

In addition to destroying hospitals in northern Gaza, Israeli artillery and aircraft targeted hospitals in the southern Gaza Strip, the most recent of which was the “Nasser Medical Complex” in Khan Younis, according to similar sources.

Both the United Nations World Health Organization and UNICEF have condemned Israel’s continued targeting of hospitals in the Gaza Strip and warned of a significant decline in the number of health care workers there.

Richard Peppercorn, the WHO representative in Gaza, described the situation in Gaza’s hospitals as “very sad and catastrophic”.

Since last October 7, the Israeli army has been waging a devastating war on Gaza, with more than 20,000 Palestinian martyrs and 52,600 wounded, most of them children and women, and massive destruction of infrastructure, according to the United Nations and Gaza Strip authorities. It was “an inhuman humanitarian disaster.” “Before.”