According to Al Jazeera, the Gaza Health Ministry has charged that Israel deliberately targets hospitals in an attempt to close them, sending injured and displaced Palestinians into a “circle of death.” A spokesman for the Health Ministry, Ashraf al-Qudra, claimed that the Israeli occupation was “deliberately bombing hospitals in Gaza to put them out of service,” adding that this was creating a “circle of death” for medical professionals as well as the injured and displaced. Al-Qudra went on to say that Israel had bombarded a number of locations outside of Gaza City where Palestinian refugees were seeking safety, including a packed square, a building next to the Baptist Hospital, and the Salah ud-Din school. Munir al-Barsh, director-general of Gaza’s Health Ministry, told Al Jazeera earlier today that the hospitals that are still open are finding it difficult to handle “an influx of dead bodies.”