CAIRO, November 12. /TASS/. At least 3,000 cancer patients in the Gaza Strip have been left without treatment after the evacuation of medical establishments, Palestinian Health Minister Mai Kaileh said.

"Three thousand cancer patients who were undergoing treatment at the Al-Rantisi center and the Turkish hospital (Turkish-Palestinian Friendship Hospital - TASS) have been left to die after the occupation expelled them from hospitals," she said in a statement posted on the ministry’s Facebook page (Facebook is banned in Russia due to its ownership by Meta, which has been designated as extremist).

According to the minister, Israeli forces "are throwing the wounded and patients out to the streets to die." "This is not evacuation, this is expulsion at gunpoint," she stressed.

She noted that due to the power outage and the lack of medical expendable twelve patients had died at Al-Shifa Hospital in the north of the Gaza Strip. In her words, medical personnel cannot move about the hospital’s buildings because of drone attacks. "Another risk threatening the lives of the patients and which fraught with a catastrophe for people’s health is that medical brigades cannot bury 100 bodies that are kept in the hospital’s backyard," she said.

The Palestinian health ministry said on November 11 that Al-Shifa Hospital had stopped surgeries due to the lack of fuel. The lives of 39 newborns who need oxygen are at risk, since the hospital had run out of it.