Israel bombs health care building, three mobile clinics
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Palestine Information Centre
[ 07/01/2009 - 11:15 AM ]
GAZA, (PIC)-- The health care committees in Gaza reported that Israeli
warplanes bombed on Tuesday their central headquarters which included a
specialized medical center in the Rimal neighborhood of Gaza city in
addition to three mobile clinics and one ambulance.
In a press statement received by the PIC, the health committees added that
the bombed mobile clinics were trucks equipped with medical equipment
received few months ago from a Spanish humanitarian organization.
Dr. Nihad Al-Akhras, the head of the union of health care committees, said
that the Israeli air raids on medical facilities in the Gaza Strip aim to
destroy the infrastructure of the Palestinian people in Gaza and undermine
their steadfastness.
Dr. Akhras appealed to the Red Cross and UN office for the coordination of
humanitarian affairs to intervene to put an end to the killing of civilians
and medical personnel in Gaza and to help the hospitals, medical centers and
crew to fulfill their humanitarian duties.
Palestinian interior minister Sa'eed Siyam called on the Red Cross and the
international human rights organizations to shoulder their responsibilities
towards the protection of headquarters and crews of civil defense and
medical care.
In a statement received by the PIC, Siyam said that Israel bombed most of
the civil defense buildings and a number of fire trucks and ambulances.
In another statement received by the PIC, the Palestinian health ministry
called on the Egyptian authorities to facilitate the entry of volunteer
doctors to Gaza in addition to the humanitarian aid sent by Arab states.
In the same context, volunteer doctors and medical crews strongly criticized
the Egyptian authorities for blocking their entry to Gaza over the past few
days in order to provide Gaza people with medical care and assist in
alleviating their tragedy.
Arab and Greek doctors stated that there are many workers in the medical
field from Europe and around the world who expressed willingness to join the
other volunteers as soon as the Egyptian authorities open the Rafah border
crossing.
The Egyptian authorities have also refused to allow trucks carrying food and
humanitarian aid into Gaza since the Israeli ground invasion started except
for small quantities, which were handed manually through the main gate of
the Rafah crossing.
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