Tehran, IRNA - The Israeli Occupation Forces have turned the Turkish-Palestinian Friendship Hospital in Gaza into a military barracks, Qatar's Al Jazeera network announced on Saturday night based on satellite images of the war-ravaged Strip.

The satellite images also show rows of Israeli armored vehicles and military equipment stationed in an orderly manner around the Turkish-Palestinian Friendship Hospital in Gaza, forming a barricade, IRNA cited a report from the Qatari media outlet.

The report comes at the same time the Zionist military bombed the largest pharmaceutical factory in the central Gaza city of Deir al-Balah, in the continuation of the regime’s targeted destruction of the healthcare system in the Palestinian coastal strip.

The goal of the Zionist regime is to destroy the facilities of Gaza to make it uninhabitable, Deir al-Balah Municipality said in a statement on Saturday.

The Gaza health system is already on the brink of collapse due to shortage of medicine and equipment. Only 12 out of 37 hospitals are running partially amid Israel’s indiscriminate shelling and airstrikes.  

Mass killing of Gazans

Meanwhile, the Palestine Relief and Rescue Group in Gaza announced on Sunday morning that it discovered a mass grave in one of the hospitals, exposing the massacre of Palestinian carried out by the Zionist forces during their ground invasion.

Group announced that it pulled out the bodies of 50 martyrs who were buried by the Zionist forces at the Nasser Medical Complex in Khan Yunis, south of Gaza, the report said adding that the team did not mention the time of discovery of this mass grave.

Earlier on Saturday, the Ministry of Health in Gaza also announced 37 more fatalities in the last 24 hours, pushing the overall death toll in Israeli genocidal war to 34,049, majority of them women and children.

Ashraf al-Qadara, the spokesperson of the Gaza Ministry of Health, said that the occupying regime is carrying out organized military operations against the healthcare system. He revealed that the regime has so far directly targeted 13,800 children and martyred them, and in addition, 30 children also died due to malnutrition.

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