Euro-Med urges for immediate action to bring in medical supplies to besieged Gaza

Euro-Med Human Rights Monitor also called for ways to guarantee the right to travel for those in need of critical treatment, and bring in the supplies required to immediately rebuild the health system and ensure its safety from Israeli targeting.

The demand comes after Euro-Med received dozens of daily complaints from Palestinians seeking to travel for life-saving treatment outside the Gaza Strip due to the lack of adequate treatment, medicines, and medical devices, as the majority of hospitals are out of service due to the ongoing Israeli blockade and direct targeting.

That as the Israeli regime has closed the Rafah land crossing with Egypt, the only route for travel in the Gaza Strip since the start of Israel’s ongoing genocide of Palestinians there, since the redeployment of its military forces and the destruction of large parts of it last May.

The closure has prevented thousands of sick and injured people from traveling for treatment, resulting in the deaths of hundreds of them thus far.

Following 10 months of its systematic and widespread destruction of the health sector, and imposing an arbitrary blockade, Israel continues to deliberately prevent the entry of medical supplies, including medical devices and essential medicines, into the Gaza Strip, resulting in a high death toll there, the Euro-Med Human Rights Monitor revealed on Monday evening.

The latest statistics from the Palestinian Ministry of Health in Gaza indicate that more than 12,000 injured people and 14,000 sick patients are in urgent need of traveling for treatment, stressing that these are part of the tens of thousands who are in dire need of travel to complete treatment or receive essential therapy and rehabilitation services that are not available anymore in the Gaza Strip.
Dozens of patient deaths, including those of elderly people, are reported on a daily basis, the majority of which are the result of inadequate medical care, medication, or treatment. Euro-Med Monitor emphasized that these individuals are not formally included in the official list of those killed by Israel’s ongoing genocide.

Data from the Ministry of Health show that the death rate in the Gaza Strip has significantly increased in the past few months due to Israeli genocidal war on the besieged Strip.

The regime’s genocidal war on Palestinians in Gaza has already claimed the lives of nearly 40,000 people most of them women and children. Over 91,000 others are injured while more than 10,000 are unaccounted for, presumed to be buried under the rubble.