On November 20, Palestine confirmed that the first Jordan-supported field hospital began operating in the Gaza Strip to treat victims of the war between Israel and the Hamas movement.
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| The international community has made efforts to overcome the consequences of the war in Gaza in many ways, including establishing field hospitals to promptly treat civilian casualties. (Source: Reuters) |
Mohammed Zaqout, Gaza's hospital chief, announced that the new hospital in Khan Yunis will receive the sick and wounded, as hospitals in the southern region are suffering from a disaster, with hundreds of people injured every day and under constant bombardment.
Earlier, about 40 trucks carrying equipment for a field hospital, along with 17 Jordanian medical staff, moved through the Rafah border gate to enter Gaza, with the approval of the Israeli army.
Hamas' health ministry reported that some 30,000 wounded people across Gaza were in need of treatment, while the Israeli offensive forced most hospitals in the territory to shut down.
In another development, on the same day, November 20, the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA) recorded that the number of civilians forced to leave their homes due to the war in Gaza reached nearly 1.7 million people.
Of these, about 900 people have taken refuge in UNRWA schools and hundreds of thousands more have been forced to live on the streets.
Contaminated water supplies are spreading disease and there is a risk of cholera outbreaks. In addition, UNRWA has given Israel the exact locations of its facilities to avoid air strikes, but more than 70 facilities have been damaged by bombs.
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