Israeli shelling injures several health ministry employees in central Gaza

A Palestinian man stands barefoot as a fire rages in a school-turned-shelter in Al-Zawayda in the central Gaza Strip, targeted by an Israeli strike during the night of 6 October, 2024 [BASHAR TALEB/AFP via Getty Images]

The Palestinian Health Ministry said today that several of its employees were injured in Israeli artillery shelling in the central Gaza Strip.

An artillery shell hit near a vehicle carrying ministry employees near Al-Zawayda town, injuring a number of staffers, the ministry added in a statement.

A ministry employee, who spoke on condition of anonymity, said shrapnel from the shell hit the vehicle and injured several staffers.

Israel has repeatedly targeted medical professionals and journalists in Gaza. With one doctor telling MEMO that to escape he was forced to pretend to be a civilian because occupation troops were targeting surgeons. “Either they kill us or they detain us,” Dr Ahmed Al-Mughrabi, former head of the Plastic and Burns Department at Nasser Hospital in Khan Yunis, said, adding that the fate of many of his colleagues remains unknown after they were disappeared by occupation forces following the siege of Nasser Hospital.

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