This article was originally published by IMEMC and is republished with permission.

Palestinian medical sources in the Gaza Strip reported on Thursday evening that a 10-month old infant died at a local hospital in Gaza after Israel barred his family from transferring him to a hospital outside the Gaza Strip. Earlier n Thursday a 6-year old child died of kidney failure.

The sources stated that Waseem Hamdan, 10 months, needed urgent medical treatment out of the Gaza Strip as the ongoing Israeli siege emptied Gaza hospitals of the basic equipment and medications.

Earlier on Thursday a 6-year old child, identified as Imad Al Oweiny, died of kidney failure, at a local hospital in the Gaza Strip.

The Israeli siege on Gaza led to the death of more than 211 patients, including 46 children.

The Palestinian Ministry of Health in the Gaza Strip reported that although one month passed since achieving the truce deal, Israel did not implement its side of the side of the agreement which states that it should reopen the border crossing, especially the Rafah border terminal.

The ministry added that Israel not allow the patients to be moved to hospitals abroad to receive the needed treatement.

The ministry demanded international human rights groups to intervene and stop the Israeli violations which the ministry described as "organized annihilation practiced by Israel against 1.5 million Palestinians in the Gaza Strip".