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Palestinian Health: The number of martyrs in the "Al-Rashid Street" massacre rises to 104 martyrs

Palestinian Health: The number of martyrs in the "Al-Rashid Street" massacre rises to 104 martyrs

By Mounira Magdy

Published: February 29, 2024

Al-Rashid Street Massacre.. The Palestinian Ministry of Health announced today, Thursday, the rise in the number of martyrs of the Al-Rashid Street massacre to 104 martyrs, indicating that the martyrs and wounded of this massacre have arrived at all Gaza hospitals.

The Palestinian Ministry of Health stated that the medical crews are still dealing with a number of critical cases with limited capabilities.

Dr. Ashraf Al-Qudra, spokesperson for the Palestinian Ministry of Health, stated that the medical crews are unable to deal with severe injuries, noting that the coming hours may witness a significant increase in the number of martyrs of the Al-Rashid Street massacre.

According to Palestinian sources, the occupation forces and their tanks stationed on the coastal road west of Gaza City opened fire with their machine guns towards thousands of citizens from the northern Gaza Strip who were waiting for trucks loaded with humanitarian aid to arrive.

Dr. Muhammad Saleha, acting director of Al-Awda Hospital, said the hospital received 90 wounded and three martyrs who were transferred to Kamal Adwan Hospital.

Meanwhile, the director of Kamal Adwan Hospital confirmed that the injuries that arrived from Nablus Roundabout are concentrated in the head and upper parts of the body, indicating deliberate targeting by occupation soldiers.

Fares Afana, head of the ambulance service at Kamal Adwan Hospital, said that the paramedics who arrived at the scene found "dozens or hundreds" lying on the ground, adding that the hospital received no fewer than 10 martyrs and 160 injured.

Meanwhile, a correspondent for Al-Ghad Channel indicated the arrival of dozens of martyrs and wounded as a result of the Israeli massacre to Al-Shifa Medical Complex in northern Gaza.

The Al-Ghad correspondent said that the occupation forces targeted a gathering of civilians who were waiting for aid by bombing and shooting without cause.

During the transfer of martyrs and wounded from the massacre site, the residents faced a crisis in hospitals suffering from power outages due to fuel depletion in northern Gaza Strip.

The health sector in Gaza is under severe pressure after about five months of continuous Israeli aggression.

For its part, Hamas said in a statement: "In the face of this heinous massacre unprecedented in the history of war crimes, which comes as part of the siege war carried out by the criminal enemy against our people aiming to displace them from their land, implementing its sinister plan to erase the Palestinian cause, we emphasize..., that the international community and the United Nations are required to assume their legal responsibilities and duties to stop this mass killing of our people and sons."

Hamas also held the Israeli occupation, its government, and its army, as well as President Biden and the American administration fully responsible for this massacre.

The Palestinian presidency condemned the heinous massacre committed by the Israeli occupation army against Palestinian citizens who were waiting for the arrival of aid trucks at the Nablus Roundabout near Al-Rashid Street in Gaza City, which led to the martyrdom and injury of hundreds of them.

The presidency said in a statement today, Thursday, that the fall of this large number of innocent civilian victims risking their lives for a livelihood is an integral part of the genocide war committed by the occupation government against the Palestinian people, and the Israeli occupation authorities bear full responsibility and accountability before international courts.

It confirmed that this crime adds to a series of massacres committed by the occupation against the Palestinian people since the beginning of the recent aggression, which left thousands of martyrs and wounded, most of whom are children and women, stressing that international silence is what encouraged the occupation to continue shedding Palestinian blood and committing unprecedented genocide crimes in modern history.

The Palestinian presidency emphasized the importance of immediate intervention from the entire world to stop this aggression, especially from the American administration which provides support and protection to this occupation, noting that the continuation of these massacres clearly confirms that their real goal is to slaughter the Palestinian people and displace them from their land, which the Palestinian leadership will never allow.

The number of martyrs who fell in the Gaza Strip due to the Israeli aggression on the Gaza Strip since October 7 has exceeded 30,000, according to what the Gaza Ministry of Health announced on Thursday morning.

This comes while the Israeli bombing today caused great destruction in the Al-Zaytoun neighborhood and wide areas of Salah al-Din Street and near Dawlat Roundabout in Gaza City.

In a related context, the Secretary-General of the Gulf Cooperation Council, Jassim Mohammed Al-Budaiwi, demanded the immediate cessation of all Israeli military operations in the Gaza Strip and ensuring the provision of humanitarian aid, relief, and basic needs to alleviate the suffering of the civilian population in the besieged sector.

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