DUBAI, December 6. /TASS/. Servicemen of the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) have detained 35 medical workers in the Gaza Strip, Lebanon’s Al Mayadeen television reported citing the Palestinian enclave’s authorities.

According to the report, doctors and ambulance crews are among those detained by the Israeli military.

Earlier, the World Health Organization reported that an unprecedented number of arrests of doctors and attacks on medical facilities and ambulance vehicles has been registered in the region. The organization said it had been informed about more than 200 such incidents that took place between October 7 and November 28.

Tensions flared up again in the Middle East on October 7 after militants from the Gaza Strip-based radical Palestinian group Hamas launched a surprise incursion on Israeli territory, killing many Israeli kibbutz residents living near the Gaza border and abducting more than 200 Israelis, including women, children and the elderly. Hamas described its attack as a response to Israeli authorities’ aggressive actions against the Al-Aqsa Mosque on the Temple Mount in Jerusalem’s Old City. Israel declared a total blockade of the Gaza Strip and launched bombardments of the enclave and some areas in Lebanon and Syria, as well as a ground operation against Hamas in the Gaza Strip. Clashes are also reported in the West Bank.