Palestinian Red Crescent opens field hospital in Gaza to serve nearly 500,000 people

The Palestine Red Crescent Society opened a field hospital in northern Gaza on Monday to serve nearly half a million people in the area amid the continued collapse of the territory’s health sector following Israel’s genocidal war, Anadolu reports. “The opening of the hospital embodies the will of our people to remain steadfast and continue life, despite the humanitarian catastrophe in Gaza, the destruction of much of the health sector and shortages of medicines, equipment and medical staff,” Palestinian Prime Minister Mohammad Mustafa said at an event of the society’s headquarters in Al-Bireh in the central West Bank. “This occasion combines pain and hope; pain over what our people in Gaza have reached, and hope that efforts will continue to […]