Palestine Red Crescent Society Response Report As of Saturday, October 7th 2023, 18:00 PM until Tuesday, January 27, 2024, 24:00 AM [EN/AR]

Recent Developments

Gaza Strip:

Disclaimer: The information in this report is limited, and only represents the available data which PRCS teams could gather directly or from various credible information sources . This limitation is due to communication disruptions and extreme difficulties in accessing information sources

• One of the displaced people (28) was martyred today in Al-Amal Hospital after being shot directly while he was inside the ambulance and at the emergency department gate. Medical teams provided emergency medical treatment for him and tried to rescue him. But unfortunately, he was died.

• The association’s headquarters were subjected to three different violations today. Occupation snipers targeted a displaced person at the entrance to the reception and emergency department, leading to his martyrdom. The occupation’s vehicles also targeted the Khan Yunis Ambulance Center inside the association’s headquarters, which led to a hit on the outside door of the center and forced the crew to completely evacuate the place. That is while the occupation vehicles destroyed the medical point headquarters and the shelter camp for ambulance workers, which resulted in damage to related water tanks.

• The occupation forces are still penetrating deep into Khan Yunis Governorate, besieging the central area of Khan Yunis, including the Al-Amal neighborhood, for the sixth day in a row, while the hospital is suffering for the fourth day in a row from a severe siege after the vehicles and tanks arrived at the hospital gates. In addition, repeated and numerous attacks were carried out with imposing a curfew in its surroundings. Ambulance and relief teams are also prevented from working outside the association’s headquarters, while the displaced people face the risk of direct targeting from the occupation forces and drones deployed densely overhead.

• The various means of communication including landline, cellular, and Internet communications were cut off for more than 16 days in Khan Yunis Governorate, which led to the connection difficulties within PRCS various crews, (including the operations room), in addition to telecommunication cut with the external world.

• During the past few hours, the occupation forces committed 19 of massacres against citizens, which led to an increase in the number of massacres carried out against Palestinian families to more than 2208 massacres from the beginning of the aggression until today, resulting in thousands of martyrs and tens of thousands of wounded, and the lists of hundreds of families erased from the civil registry.

• PRCS OPS, EMS, rescue and relief, and Paramedics teams are all experiencing sporadic internet outages at our headquarters and Al-Amal Hospital in Khan Yunis. These disruptions are a direct consequence of the recent assaults by the Israeli occupation forces on the areas in the vicinity of the hospital.

• 2 PRCS EMS centers in Gaza and Northern Gaza have been put out of service ceasing to provide any services including emergency response and rescue upon running out of fuel along with the Israeli occupying forces restrictions of access of the working medical teams. Moreover, Hospitals in the governorate are put of service as well and it is impossible to conduct any humanitarian evacuation. The medical point in North Gaza Governorate, which is managed by the association’s volunteers, is still continuing its work in providing emergency services to the wounded.