Palestine Red Crescent Society: Response Report as of Saturday, October 7th 2023, 6:00 PM Until Monday, December 4th 2023, 00:00 AM [EN/AR]

Palestine Red Crescent Society teams are still responding to the developments on the ground in both Gaza Strip and the West Bank, where the operations are carried out 24/7, for the 59th day in a row.

All forms of communication have been lost with the Central Operations Room in the Gaza Strip and PRCS crews working there as a result of the Israeli Occupation’s cut-off for the 4th time since the beginning of aggression.

The following information in this report is the maximum which our crews were able to collect from direct follow-ups and different sources due to the complete loss of telecommunications and the great difficulty in reaching the sources of information until 13:00 pm.

Latest Updates:

Gaza Strip:

• The Israeli Occupation forces have directly targeted Kamal Adwan Hospital in northern Gaza governorate. This hospital is facing great difficulties in treating the wounded after the Indonesian Hospital has gone out of service.

• Volunteer paramedic Osama Tayeh, a volunteer at the association’s first aid center in North Gaza Governorate, was martyred today at dawn while he was at his home in the Al-Faluga area, while one of his colleagues suffered from burns on his body.

• The fuel crisis in PRCS’ Al-Amal Hospital in Khan Younis persists as consumption is reduced to the minimum level, affecting the services provided to the wounded and the sick, including first aid and emergency medical services.

• PRCS colleague Awni Khattab Head of Khan Younis Ambulance Center remains detained by the Israeli Occupation forces for the 13th day in a row. He was arrested during the wounded convoy from Al-Shifa Hospital, traveling through the checkpoint which separates north and south Gaza.

• All hospitals in Gaza are out of service including Al-Shifa and Al-Quds Hospitals due to the Israeli Occupation’s siege and ban on medical services. The crews and patients have also been forced into displacement towards the south, increasing the size of the disaster in north of Wadi Gaza, preluding hundreds of victims due to the halt of first aid and medical services to the wounded.

• The Israeli Occupation forces continue to penetrate into numerous central regions in Gaza and north Gaza governorates and have separated the north of the Strip from its South, increasing challenges facing the working medical and relief teams as it prevents the movement of ambulance vehicles from approaching the places of incursions and targets everyone who tries to move there. The Occupation is also forcing citizens to move at certain times through Salah al-Din Street, and targeting some of them with death, injury, arrest, humiliation or inhuman treatment.

• The competent authorities continue to recover the bodies of the martyrs from the streets and under the rubble; the recovery crews are facing high challenges in performing their missions because there is no fuel available for the necessary machines which have already been exhausted. Official authorities have received approximately (7500) reports of missing persons in the rubble and corpses laying in the streets including well over (4700) children and women.

• The Ministry of Health confirms that the occupation forces deliberately target medical personnel and crews, which led to the loss of (281) medical personal lives, (26) from the rescue team members and the wreckage of (56) ambulances that are now un-operable. The Ministry of Health also confirms that (20) hospitals and (46) health centers are out of service as a result of Israeli targeting and the depletion of fuel and medical resources. In addition, the Occupation forces continue to arrest (35) medical personnel, including the General Director of Al-Shifa Hospital in Gaza and to still besiege and target the Indonesian Hospital, obstructing the work of medical teams and preventing them from reaching it.

• The continued targeting of public facilities, as the occupation directly targeted (267) schools, including (67) schools that are out of service, while the number of completely destroyed mosques reached (93) mosques, and (181) partially destroyed mosques, in addition to targeting (3) churches. Based on official data, (77) media professionals were martyred under direct targeting since the beginning of the aggression.