3 KILLED
973 INJURED
10 TRAUMA STABILISATION POINTS
257 ESSENTIAL DRUGS IMMEDIATELY NEEDED
247 ESSENTIAL DISPOSABLES IMMEDIATELY NEEDED
Highlights
Latest figures by the Ministry of Health (MoH) indicate 973 Palestinians were injured by Israeli forces following the seventh mass demonstration by Palestinians on the Gaza side of the perimeter fence with Israel, between theth and the 11th May.
Out of the 973 injuries, 371 required immediate transfer to the MoH hospitals or to NGO clinics, (including 49 children, 12 females and 359 males). From the hospitalized injuries, 16 cases were critically life threatening, 222 moderate, the remaining 133 were mild cases.
An additional 602 injuries were managed at primary healthcare centers and 10 trauma stabilization points by the MoH, Union Health Workers Committee (UHWC) NGO and by the Palestinian Red Crescent Society (PRCS).
Casualties occurred during the mass demonstrations by Palestinians on the Gaza side of the perimeter fence with Israel. People from all over the Gaza Strip gathered near the area, where the Israeli army imposes a ‘No Go Zone’, to mark the Palestinian ‘Land Day’, the seventh of a series of mass protests leading up to the 70th anniversary of what Palestinians refer to as the 1948 ‘Nakba’, on 15 May.
For the seventh week in a row, mass gatherings took place across Gaza, 500-700 meters away from the perimeter fence, in the following 5 locations:
An-Nahda area in the east of Rafah
Al-Najar area east of Khuza'a in Khanyounis
Al Bureij camp in the Middle Area
Malaka area east of Gaza City
Abu Safiya in Jabalia and at the checkpoint in Beit Hanoun, North Gaza