Israeli attacks targeted 60% of residential units in Gaza Strip

The Hamas government’s media office in Gaza said on Sunday that Israel’s attacks on the enclave have targeted 60% of its residential units since 7 October, 2023.

A spokesman told journalists that 43,000 housing units have been completely destroyed in Israeli raids, while 225,000 have been partially destroyed.

Almost 100 government buildings have been destroyed, as have 262 schools. Eighty-three mosques are among the civilian infrastructure destroyed by Israel, with 166 damaged. Three churches have also been targeted.

The spokesman reported that more than 13,000 Palestinians have been killed, including more than 5,500 children and 3,500 women, with at least 30,000 others wounded, more than 75% of whom are children and women.

With heavy lifting equipment unavailable, he added, more than 6,000 are believed to be buried under the rubble of buildings destroyed by Israeli bombs, including over 4,000 women and children.

A total of 221 healthcare workers have been killed, as have 22 civil defense workers and 60 journalists got assassinated in the Gaza Strip massacre.

The spokesman also pointed out that 25 hospitals and 52 health centres are out of service, while 55 ambulances have been targeted, with dozens more out of service due to the lack of fuel.

The Israeli army also forcibly evacuated about 500 patients from Al-Shifa Hospital in the west of Gaza city, including those who had been injured by its extensive onslaughts, and left them to meet their fate on the streets as they were in serious conditions and needed extensive medical care, the government’s media office in the Gaza Strip.

The Israeli army had given all those inside the Al-Shifa Medical Complex a one-hour deadline, forcing even patients in critical need of medical care to leave the healthcare facility.

The media office stressed that international institutions and organizations also bear responsibility for negligence, and weak follow-up and coordination, within the framework of protecting hospitals and health centers, which are supposed to have international and legal immunity.

The statement also stressed that fuel must be provided to all hospitals in the Gaza Strip, in order to carry out their health, medical and humanitarian duties towards tens of thousands of wounded and sick people.

Middle East Monitor / ABC Flash Point News 2023.