Gaza death toll reaches 19,667

The death toll from the Israeli aggression in Gaza has risen to 19,667, while the number of injured has reached 52,586, according to the latest dives from the Ministry of Health in the Gaza Strip.

Mohamed Salah, the director of the Red Crescent Society in northern Gaza, said on Wednesday that the ambulance service had been halted due to the siege of occupation vehicles from all sides and that the northern Gaza Strip was suffering from a severe shortage of medical equipment.

The Ministry of Health in the Gaza Strip urged human rights organizations to launch an urgent investigation into the massacre committed by occupation soldiers at Kamal Adwan Hospital in the northern Gaza Strip.

The ministry said that the Israeli army had forced the hospital director, Ahmed Al-Kahlot, to give a statement that matched its account under intimidation and torture. It confirmed that the children in Kamal Adwan Hospital had been trapped without water, food, or electricity for several days before the hospital was bombed.

Moreover, the Palestinian Red Crescent said that the Israeli occupation forces had surrounded its ambulance centre in Jabalia, with 127 people inside, including paramedics and displaced people.

Also on Wednesday, the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) said that children in the Gaza Strip did not receive 90% of their natural water needs. The organization noted that the risk of waterborne diseases in the Strip was “particularly increasing due to the lack of safe drinking water.”