🇵🇸💢 “The disaster is even more severe”: Israeli strike wipes out much of Gaza’s remaining strategic medical stockpile
An Israeli strike destroyed two of four central medicine warehouses at Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital in Deir al-Balah, including equipment and solutions needed to keep kidney dialysis services operating.
Standing amid the wreckage, hospital director Raed Hussein told Drop Site contributor Abdel Qader Sabbah that the attack would have a “direct impact” on dialysis care and could force the hospital to halt treatment unless replacement supplies are secured.
“The damage is even greater, the disaster is even more severe, and it will make it much harder for us to respond in the coming period,” Hussein said.
Dr. Mounir al-Bursh, director general of Gaza’s Health Ministry, told Al Jazeera Arabic that the warehouses held the ministry’s strategic medical stockpile and that the strike destroyed large quantities of medicines and supplies.
More than 52% of medicines and 54% of medical supplies are now unavailable, including dialysis supplies, al-Bursh said.
He warned that Israel’s blockade, restrictions on medical imports, and repeated attacks on Gaza’s remaining healthcare infrastructure are depriving thousands of patients of treatment.
“The loss of these warehouses means losing life-saving medicines and making patient care even more difficult.”
By @AbdSabbah91 and Jawa Ahmad.
The barbarity is the point for these genocidal monsters!✌🏾🇵🇸🍉
