Director of the Palestinian Ministry of Health in Gaza, Dr Munir al-Bursh, told Al Jazeera that northern Gaza and Gaza City are suffering from a shortage of medical staff amid intense Israeli attacks and the ongoing siege.

Al-Bursh explained that many injured people have died in the streets due to a lack of medical supplies, adding that more than 10,000 people are wounded in the Gaza Strip.

“The [Israeli] occupation uses internationally prohibited weapons, and there are testimonies of some bodies being evaporated. There were types of burns we had never seen before and entire bodies were vaporised,” he said.

Al-Bursh added that an international investigation was needed into the type of weapons used by Israel following cases in northern Gaza where bodies “evaporated” during an Israeli campaign of “ethnic cleansing and mass killings”.