in 2007. The crisis exacerbated by three previous Israeli authorities’ aggressive operations in 2008, 2012, and 2014 respectively, as well as their brutal oppression with the use of excessive force against the Great Return Marches, which began on 3/30/2018, marking the 42nd anniversary of Land Day. These marches lasted for several months and resulted in the death of dozens of Palestinian civilians, and the injury of several thousand others, in addition to the depletion of medical resources and a large migration among the medical staff, which created a shortage of trained medical staff. Then the crisis worsened following the spread of the Covid-19 pandemic in the Gaza Strip in August 2020, which led to the occupancy of the majority of intensive care rooms with the infected and depleted the already strained medical resources. The Ministry of Health in the Gaza Strip expressed, in a statement on May 14, 2021, its concern about the targeting of infrastructure and roads in the Gaza Strip, which makes the movement of ambulance crews to transport patients extremely difficult. The aggravation of the power outage crisis, due to the Israeli bombing of various areas and the destruction of electricity transformers, poses a great danger to the hospitals' ability to provide the energy needed to operate their medical equipment. The Gaza Strip is already suffering from a major electricity crisis for many years. This situation puts the lives of patients in the intensive care unit at imminent risk6. The Israeli aggression also contributes to increasing the risk of exposure to the Covid19 epidemic due to the inability of citizens to follow health prevention instructions in the light of the forcibly displacing the civilians from their homes and crowding them in schools, as places of shelter from the violent Israeli bombing of their residential areas. UNRWA reported that it documented the displacement of about 40 thousand Palestinians in the Gaza Strip from their homes to about 50 UNRWA schools. The escalating Israeli aggression also hinders the efforts of the medical staff to reach Covid19 patients, who suffer severe symptoms and their lives are at stake due to the severe pressure on hospitals caused by the increasing number of injured people because of the aggression7. The bombing also caused direct damage to some private clinics, medical centers, and primary healthcare clinics. For example, the Ministry of Health announced that the "Hala Al Shawa Center" was completely out of service after the Israeli bombing severely damaged it. It is a maternal and child health care center that provides vaccinations for children. The same applies to the Beit Hanoun and Indonesian Hospitals that suffered damage from the Israeli bombardment8. In addition, the Israeli bombardment also targeted the Ministry of Health building and the Rimal Clinic, while the functioning of the central laboratory had to stop as a result, including the Covid-19 test center. 3. The right to housing 6 Palestinian Ministry of Health, a press release issued by the Ministry of Health ،2021/5/14 shorturl.at/uEHV4 7 Same reference 8 Same reference

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