Death toll from Israel attacks on Gaza rises to 11,500
16 Nov 2023 11:26am
Plumes of smoke rising into the sky from Israeli bombardment in northern Gaza on Wednesday
"The number of deaths among medical personnel has reached 200,” Anadolu Agency cited the office as saying in a statement on Telegram.
It further said that 22 civil defence personnel and 51 journalists have also been killed, while the number of injured people has reached 29,800, with about 70 per cent of them children and women.
The statement said 95 government buildings and 255 schools have been destroyed. Some 74 mosques were completely destroyed and 162 were partially damaged, in addition to three churches.
It said that the Israeli army targeted 52 health centres and 55 ambulances, while 25 hospitals have run out of service.
"Israeli soldiers attacked many patients, wounded individuals, and displaced people, as well as several medical and nursing staff inside Al-Shifa Medical Complex, forcing them to undress and subjecting them to insults,” the statement added.
After besieging it for days, the Israeli army on Wednesday raided the Al-Shifa Medical Complex in Gaza City.
The government office held "the Israeli occupation (forces) and the international community, especially the United States, fully responsible for the organised war crimes committed by the occupation army against hospitals” and called for "the immediate opening of the Rafah crossing and the entry of aid.”
Earlier, the Palestinian telecommunication regulatory authority warned that communications services in Gaza will come to a total halt amid a severe fuel shortage.
In a separate statement, the government media office warned that the outage of communications services will "contribute to the complete concealment of all war crimes committed by the occupation army around the clock against hospitals, safe homes, and 2.3 million people in the Gaza Strip.- BERNAMA
