Gaza City, December 7 (RHC)-- Munir al-Bursh, director-general of the Health Ministry in Gaza, says he has just lost a number of his relatives in an Israeli army attack.

“The Israeli occupation wants to kill hope, it wants to kill our youth, our children, and women,” he told the Palestinian news agency Shehab.  Israeli forces “do not differentiate between a child and the elderly.”

Al-Bursh said 70 percent of those who lost their lives are women and children.  “Today, those wounded in Gaza die of bleeding … We cannot do anything for them,” he said.  “They [Israeli forces] emptied hospitals of their supplies and left them as morgues to large numbers of the dead.  All we do is count bodies.”