Gaza calls for urgent medical equipment
Gaza has put out an urgent call for medical equipment to cope with the numbers of injured in yesterday’s massacre by Israeli forces.
The sheer numbers will put a strain on services for weeks and months to come.
If you can help, please contact the Director of the Gaza Ministry of Health International Cooperation Directorate to get instructions on how to donate:
Some good news for Gaza
- Egypt announced today it is permitting 92 injured to receive medical treatment in Egyptian hospitals.
- Rafah crossing will stay open until Monday, in both directions.
- Gazans donated more than 600 units of blood in less than 24 hours, demonstrating their humanity.
RED CROSS SAYS GAZA HOSPITALS ON VERGE OF COLLAPSE
Red Cross: Gaza hospitals on the brink of collapse, Shifa Hospital alone is dealing with 400 injured, and this can not continue
Palestinian MOH-Gaza Update as at 1900 hrs 25/08/2014
The Palestinian Ministry of Health in Gaza reports the following statistics as at 1900 hours on Monday August 25, 2014.
Total number of victims:13,196 (2,130 Martyrs; 11,066 Injured)
Distributed As
Deaths: 2,130 – 577 children, 263 women, 102 persons over 60 years
Injuries: 11,066 – 3,374 children, 2,088 women, 410 persons over 60 years

Fatima was at her front door when a drone struck, killing her niece and grand-daughter, and injuring her two sons and a grandson. She has shrapnel embedded in her head, face, neck and all over her body.
MOH Gaza Update as at 1900 hrs on 21/08/2014
Israeli Aggression against Palestinians in Gaza Strip from 06-07-2014
Date of report: 21/08/2014 at 1900 hrs
Total number of victims:12,565 (2,083 Martyrs; 10,482 Injured)
Distributed As
Deaths: 2,083 – 561 children, 255 women, 98 over 60 years
Injuries: 10,482 – 3,189 children, 1,994 women, 388 over 60 years
Any ceasefire agreement must be based on international law, respect for human rights
Press Release
Ministry of Health Gaza
August 06, 2014
The Ministry of Health Gaza insists that any ceasefire agreement must guarantee the human rights of our people, most importantly, the right to health.
We therefore stress that any agreement arising out of the talks in Cairo must be based on international law, not self-interest.
We emphasise that international law is something that is applied without fear or favour, not negotiated.
(more…)MOH Gaza update as at 2000 hrs on 04/08/2014
The Ministry of Health in Gaza reports the following statistics as at 2000 hours on Monday August 04, 2014.
Deaths: 1,865 – 429 children, 243 women 18-60 years, 79 persons over 60 years
Injuries: 9,536 – 2,877 children, 1,853 women 18-60 years, 347 over 60 years.
ICU: 153 patients
MOH Gaza Update as at 2000 hrs on 03/08/2014
The Ministry of Health in Gaza reports the following statistics as at 2000 hours on Sunday August 03, 2014.
Deaths: 1,803 – 401 children, 238 women 18-60 years, 74 persons over 60 years
Injuries: 9,324 – 2,805 children, 1,823 women 18-60 years, 343 over 60 years.
ICU: 140 patients
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(more…)Kuwaiti Maternity Hospital in Rafah unable to cope with scores of dead and injured
Press Release
Gaza Ministry of Health, Palestine
August 03, 2014
The Ministry of Health Gaza is reeling from the reports coming out of Rafah, where scores have been killed and injured today, including 10 dead and over 30 injured in yet another attack on an UNRWA school, this time the Anas Ibn Malik Prepatory School sheltering thousands of forcibly displaced persons.
A group of women, children and older people were sitting against the wall at the entrance to the school seeking shade from the sun when they were struck.
This atrocity follows dawn attacks in Rafah on the Ghoul and Abu Jazzar family homes which left 18 dead and dozens injured, and brings the number killed in Gaza today to at least 118. (more…)
Lack of water, sanitation and PHC cause explosion of infectious disease in Gaza, threaten public health
Press Release
Gaza Ministry of Health, Palestine
August 02, 2014
The people of Gaza face enormous barriers to accessing primary health care, with only 10 of the government’s 56 Primary Health Care clinics operational, eight of UNRWA’s 22 clinics open, and most NGO clinics closed.
The majority of displaced persons have no access whatsoever to primary health care services.
This is at a time when there are urgent public health problems arising from the Israeli offensive threatening the health of the entire population. (more…)
Urgent Gaza needs: transfer for 50 patients, humanitarian corridor to Al Naser Hospital
Gaza Ministry of Health, Palestine
August 02, 2014
The Ministry of Health Gaza makes an urgent appeal to hospitals outside of Gaza to take 50 cases ready to be referred immediately. Gaza’s hospitals are overloaded, and just cannot cope with the huge number of casualties resulting from the latest continuous Israeli bombardment, this time in the Rafah governate.
More than 85 people have been killed in the last 24 hours in Rafah, and over 350 have been injured, many seriously. The entire Al Janina area of Rafah has been decimated. (more…)
Al Najar Hospital in Rafah evacuated as Israeli genocidal rampage continues
Press Release
Gaza Ministry of Health, Palestine
August 01, 2014
The Ministry of Health Gaza announces the closure of Al Najjar Hospital in Rafah, due to Israeli bombardments in the vicinity compromising its ability to guarantee the safety of patients and staff.
The hospital has now been evacuated, bringing to four the number of government hospitals closed by Israeli attacks in the past three and a half weeks. (more…)
Urgent call from MOH Gaza for international assistance to evacuate civilians
Press Release
Gaza Ministry of Health, Palestine
August 01, 2014
The Ministry of Health Gaza calls for immediate international assistance to evacuate thousands of civilians trapped under heavy Israeli bombardment in Rafah, in which at least 40 have already been killed and over 150 injured.
Some five kilometres between Salah Al-Eddin street and Al Najjar Hospital is under intense and indiscriminate artillery fire, ambulances are unable to reach the wounded, and thousands of civilians are trapped in their homes. (more…)
MOH Gaza Update as at 1900 hrs on 31/07/2014
The Ministry of Health in Gaza reports the following statistics as at 1900 hours on Thursday July 31, 2014.
Deaths: 1,418 – 324 children, 166 women 18-60 years, 60 persons over 60 years
Injuries: 8,265 – 2,502 children, 1,626 women 18-60 years, 303 over 60 years.
ICU: 140 patients
Gaza surgery being performed in corridors, on the floor
Press Release
Gaza Ministry of Health, Palestine
July 31, 2014
Gaza hospitals are operating under impossible conditions, with surgery now being performed in corridors and on the floor due to the sheer numbers of wounded from massacres such as Shati park, UNRWA school and Shujeiyah market.
Lack of theatre space sees two persons being operated on at a time in the same theatre, while others receive surgical interventions in the corridors.
Even beds are in such short supply that surgeons are forced to undertake complicated procedures while their patients lie on stretchers on the floor.
There is nowhere to send the patients post-operatively, with Shifa ICU full, and no vacant beds in surgical wards. (more…)
MOH Gaza Update as at 2400 on 30/07/2014
The Ministry of Health in Gaza reports the following statistics as at 2400 hours on Wednesday July 30, 2014.
Deaths: 1,357 – 315 children, 166 women 18-60 years, 58 persons over 60 years
Injuries: 7.677 – 2,164 children, 1,314 women 18-60 years, 282 over 60 years.
ICU: 140 patients
Israeli attack on crowded market during ceasefire is ‘barbarity personified’ says MOH Gaza
Press Release
Gaza Ministry of Health, Palestine
July 30, 2014
Israeli attack on crowded market during ceasefire is ‘barbarity personified’
Ministry of Health Gaza is outraged at the Israeli massacre perpetrated during the so-called humanitarian ceasefire, when F-16s fired missiles into the crowded Shujeiyah market as hundreds took advantage of the lull to buy food and supplies.
At least 17 people have been killed and 200 injured.
“This atrocity is barbarity personified,” said Director General, Ministry of Health Dr Medhat Abbas.
Not satisfied with exterminating entire families in their own homes, not satisfied with killing people praying in mosques, not satisfied with killing patients, staff and visitors in hospitals, not satisfied with killing ambulance drivers as they retrieve the dead and injured, not satisfied with killing women and children sheltering in UNRWA schools, the Israeli death machine now blatantly attacks a crowded public market DURING a humanitarian ceasefire, in an unrivalled cruel and cynical exercise of savagery and barbarism. (more…)
Murdering refugees in safe havens an Israeli forte, says MOH
Press Release
Gaza Ministry of Health, Palestine
July 30, 2014
Murdering refugees in safe havens an Israeli forte
Murdering desperate families in safe havens is fast becoming Israel’s forte. UNRWA’s Abu Hussein Elementary Girls School in Jabalia, housing 3,300 displaced people, was struck last night killing 15 and injuring 90, bringing the number of UNRWA schools attacked by the Israeli military to six. (more…)
MOH Gaza Update 2100 hrs 29/07/2014
The Ministry of Health in Gaza reports the following statistics as at 2100 hours on Tuesday July 29, 2014.
Deaths: 1,210 – 287 children, 130 women 18-60 years, 57 persons over 60 years
Injuries: 6,896 – 2,164 children, 1,314 women 18-60 years, 282 over 60 years.
ICU: 121 patients
MOH Gaza: Muslim holy days marred by genocide in Gaza
Press Release
Gaza Ministry of Health, Palestine
July 29, 2014
The Ministry of Health Gaza is pained to express its deep sadness and outrage at the Israeli attacks on Gaza on our holy days of Eid al-Fitr.
In the last 24 hours, 120 people have been killed, bringing the total to 1,156.
Particularly distressing was the death in Al Bureij refugee camp of Diana Abu Jaber and her unborn baby only a week before his estimated date of delivery.
Diana’s home was struck by an F-16 airstrike.
“As it collapsed a concrete pillar fell on her,” reported Dr Kamal Khatab, Medical Superintendent of Al Aqsa Hospital. “A shell ripped her abdomen open, the unborn baby fell out and was hit in the head with shrapnel, and his brain matter was extruded. Both mother and baby died immediately.” (more…)
MOH Gaza Press Release: Al-Shati Park massacre
Press Release
Gaza Ministry of Health, Palestine
July 29, 2014
Eid al fitr. The end of Ramadan, the end of the fast. New clothes, lots of sweets, family visits. Celebrations of life and love.
Not in Gaza.
Instead, Israelis delivered a hefty dose of death and destruction in al-Shati Camp, splitting families and bodies alike.
Two adults and eight children killed as they rode the Ferris wheel or in a TukTuk in the park, over 40 injured, one of whom has since died.
This barbaric and deliberate attack on children in a public place on one of the two most significant Muslim holy days seals the Israeli reputation as one of the most perverse war criminals imaginable.
Many considered the calculated murder of the four children playing football on the beach on July 16, 2014 to be an atrocity and a clear war crime – nine more dead children in al-Shati’s park is an even more gross excess. (more…)
MOH Gaza Update 1700 hrs 28/07/2014
The Ministry of Health in Gaza reports the following statistics as at 1700 hours on Monday July 28, 2014.
Deaths: 1,044 – 237 children, 93 women 18-60 years, 47 persons over 60 years
Injuries: 6,280 – 1,952 children, 1,172 women 18-60 years, 259 over 60 years.
ICU: 115 patients