Palestine Red Crescent Society: Response Report As of Saturday, October 7th 2023, 6:00 PM Until Thursday, November 9th 2023, 24:00 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 34th day in a row.

Latest Updates:

Gaza Strip:

• Al-Quds hospital administration decided to reduce the majority of services provided in the hospital in order to rationalize fuel consumption and continue providing medical services for a few days.

• The outage continues for the third day in a row with the emergency operations room after the interruption of communication and internet services in Gaza city, and the interference with VHF waves, which hiders the work of the teams and increases the extent of the challenges they face.

• The Ministry of Health announced that, the Israeli occupation forces bombardment the surrounding area of Al Shifa hospital with an artillery shell.

• As announced by the official sources, the Rafah crossing border is open to evacuate the injuries and people who have dual citizenship (holders of international or foreign passport).

• This evening, the two of PRCS ambulance vehicles were indirectly targeted when the occupation forces bombardment the surrounding area of the Al-Awda hospital in the northern Gaza governorate, As the two PRCS ambulances were waiting to respond in the field there.

• Today, the ministry of health announces that the Gaza Eye Hospital and Psychiatric hospital (the only on in the Gaza Strip) have been out of services as a result of being directly targeted by the occupation forces, while Al-Nasr Children's Hospital is exposing to very severe damage as a result of flying shrapnel and stones after targeting the surrounding area of the hospital, which is hosting hundreds of displaced people. In addition, the head board of the hospital announced that the medical services for children are not operating. Also, to Al-Rantisi Children's Hospital, is not operating to provide the medical services at this moment.

• As a result of the Israeli occupation forces intensified attacks targeting directly Al-Rantisi Children's Hospital, the fire spread inside the hospital, this threating the lives of hundreds displaced people and patients in the hospital.

• The Israeli occupation tanks targeting directly the vicinity of Al Shifa Hospital for the second time during the night, as the hospital hosting hundreds of displaced people and patients.

• The Israeli occupation tanks and vehicles have penetrated into several districts in Gaza governorate and Northern Gaza governorates, which separated the southern part of the Strip from the north, which increases the challenges faced by the teams working in the field by prohibiting the ambulance’s from reaching to Al-Rasheed St which is the only coastal road and targets who and/ or whichever reaches the area, additionally, citizens are also prohibited from moving across the governorates, though the occupation forces are bombarding their residential buildings randomly.

• The Israeli occupation forces continue to target all sources of life in the strip, including targeting alternative energy networks and all bakeries that have already stopped as a result of the interruption of food supplies and the lack of electricity or fuel needed to operate them, as severe warnings are coming out concerning the depletion of food supplies and water in Gaza city and the northern Gaza, which exposes hundreds of thousands of citizens to extreme danger.

• The intensified Israeli bombardments across the entire strip is ongoing, targeting residential towers, buildings, mosques, churches, main roads, infrastructure and hospitals are being targeted by these bombardments. As a result, many civilians have lost their lives including women, children and elderlies.

• Israeli aircrafts intensified the bombardments nearby PRCS’s HQ and Al-Quds hospital in Tel Al-Hawa west of Gaza is maximizing the damages caused, and the challenges to the health sector teams and IDPs in the premises.

• The Ministry of Health confirms that the occupation forces deliberately targeted (120) healthcare facilities, which led to (67) facilities sustaining severe damage, the loss of (193) medical personal lives, (18) from the rescue team members and the wreckage of (45) ambulances that are now un-operable.

• The Ministry of Health confirms that (18) hospitals and (40) health centers are out of service as a result of Israeli targeting and the depletion of fuel and medical resources.

• Official authorities have received approximately (3000) reports of missing persons in the rubble including well over (1350) children.

• The Israeli occupation targeting has reached the schools, where (238) schools were damaged to varying degrees, while (60) schools are out of service as a result of being deliberately targeted, which exacerbated the suffering of the displaced and overcrowding in shelter centers.