"We call on the relevant authorities to open a safe corridor for the delivery of urgent medical assistance to hospitals in the Gaza Strip," the ministry said in a statement.
On Monday, the head of the health ministry, Medhat Abbas, said in an interview with the Western newspaper that the Gaza Strip would run out of medical supplies in a few days, with thousands of those wounded as a result of Israeli attacks and taken to Gaza hospitals facing acute shortages of medicines.
Palestinian movement Hamas launched on Saturday a surprise large-scale rocket attack against Israel from the Gaza Strip, prompting Israel to declare a state of war and put the Palestinian enclave under a full blockade. Both Israel and Palestine have so far reported hundreds of dead and thousands of injured as a result of the escalation.