New Delhi, June 20 -- The Embassy of Palestine to India has issued an urgent appeal for immediate international and Indian intervention for medical aid, asserting that the healthcare sector in the territory has reached a breaking point and is on the "verge of total collapse".

"The Embassy of the State of Palestine to the Republic of India expresses its profound concern over the catastrophic collapse of the healthcare sector in the Occupied Palestinian Territory as a direct result of the ongoing Israeli genocidal war, military attacks, mass destruction of medical infrastructure, severe restrictions on humanitarian access and financial strangulation measures," the embassy said in an official statement on Friday.

"It is the exact moment to...