Palestinian MP appeals for providing urgent medical aid to Gaza

Palestinian lawmaker Jamal Al-Khudari, head of the popular committee against the siege, appealed to the ministers of health in all countries of the world to save the health sector in the besieged Gaza Strip and urgently provide its hospitals with medical supplies.

In a press release on Sunday, MP Khudari said that 140 types of medicines used in intensive care, emergency and neonatal units, and many other health sections became unavailable in Gaza hospitals.

He added that all hospitals also ran out of 360 medical disposables, especially those used in operating rooms.

The lawmaker also highlighted other problems affecting the health sector, including the failure of many patients who need to receive medical treatment outside Gaza to travel because of the closure of crossings.

He added that many medical devices used in hospitals also sustained malfunctions as a result of the repeated and sudden power outages.

He called on the international community to immediately move to end Israel’s blockade, which amounts to a mass punishment against the population of Gaza.