GAZA: The Israeli military has killed the families of two doctors working at the Indonesia Hospital in Gaza, the NGO that funds the facility said on Thursday, amid a surge in attacks targeting the relatives of Palestinian doctors.
The families of doctors Mohammad Al-Ran, head of the surgery department, and Muayyad Al-Ran, were among those killed in an Israeli air raid on Thursday morning, according to Arab News.
Since Israel started attacking the besieged enclave following an October 7 attack by the Hamas, over 6,500 people have been killed in the raids and more than 17,000 wounded, according to Gaza’s Health Ministry.
The air strikes have also hit dozens of health centers and doctors in the densely populated enclave.
The Indonesia Hospital in north Gaza, which is funded by Medical Emergency Rescue Committee, or MER-C, an Indonesian NGO, was one of the first health facilities targeted by Israeli missiles at the beginning of the escalation.
Israeli strikes
The World Health Organization (WHO) has so far documented 171 Israeli strikes on health facilities in the occupied Palestinian territories, including seventy-five in the Gaza Strip. The attacks have killed at least sixteen health workers on duty.
These strikes occur as Gaza hospitals are overwhelmed by thousands of patients with traumatic injuries from incessant bombardment, and are also filled with tens of thousands of Gazans seeking shelter.
Health facilities in the area are struggling to function as crucial supplies, such as medicines and fuel have run out. According to the WHO, 6 hospitals were already forced to shut down due to a lack of fuel.
The WHO said in a statement on Thursday that without fuel, medicines and health supplies, the hospitals in Gaza are on the verge of an unimaginable humanitarian catastrophe.
The statement added that WHO calls for immediate and uninterrupted access into and across Gaza, so that its ailing health system can be urgently revived.
