News - Middle East: Dr. Khalil Al-Daqran, the official spokesperson for the Ministry of Health in Gaza, has stated that the healthcare system in the Gaza Strip has been systematically destroyed over a continuous period of 470 days by the Zionist enemy.

"We urgently need to restart the hospitals that have gone out of service and establish new ones. We are also awaiting the arrival of aid today as the ceasefire comes into effect," he said.

Last week, Al-Daqran confirmed that the enemy army is employing a drip-feeding policy in delivering fuel to the Gaza Strip. He also noted that the northern Gaza Strip is suffering from severe shortages of medicine, baby formula, and clean drinking water due to the ongoing Israeli aggression and blockade.

Earlier this week, Israel was forced to agree to a ceasefire, accepting Hamas' longstanding negotiation terms.

The ceasefire deal consists of three phases, each lasting 42 days. Negotiations for the second and third phases will begin 16 days after the implementation of the first phase.

The first phase will see the release of some 1,900 Palestinian abductees in exchange for 33 Israeli captives held in Gaza. It also requires Israeli occupation forces to begin withdrawing from the Philadelphi corridor - also known as the Salah al-Din axis - on the Gaza-Egypt border.

Israel unleashed its brutal Gaza onslaught on October 7, 2023, after Hamas carried out a historic operation against the occupying entity in retaliation for its intensified atrocities against the Palestinian people.

However, the Tel Aviv regime failed to achieve its declared objectives of freeing captives and eliminating Hamas despite killing nearly 47,000 Palestinians, mostly women and children, in Gaza.