More than 400 killed, 1700 wounded in Israeli attacks.

EGYPT (ANS) -- The UK branch of a Colorado-based international humanitarian group is supporting a team of medical doctors that have deployed to help the victims of the conflict in Gaza.

Humanitarian International Services Group (www.HISG.org ) says state health officials are reporting that at least 400 people have been killed, and 1,700 more wounded, and hospitals in the Gaza Strip are vastly overwhelmed I the recent Israeli airstrikes on Gaza.

Damage from airstrikes

HISG has provided funding for immediate needs on the ground and is also working with a team of aid workers delivering emergency items into the Gaza strip as well as a Hungarian team of doctors that has been granted access to the conflict zone, according to a media release from the group.

Bomb explosion from air raid.

HISG is networked with thousands of relief and development organizations around the world, and focuses on connecting resources to needs. In this relief effort, HISG's United Kingdom office provided essential support to aid workers from different parts of Europe in order to meet urgent medical needs quickly for the people suffering in Gaza.

Map of the area

The group says the most urgent needs are for medical supplies, fuel and food.

"As the conflict continues, there is very little food available in Gaza and people are forced to wait in long lines for small rations. Most of the hospitals use diesel generators for electricity, so as the number of wounded people increases, an adequate supply of fuel is vital," the media release explains.

The release says that HISG's vast network of partners enables them to respond to emergency situations quickly and efficiently. HISG has mobilized capable teams of international volunteers to meet dire and specific needs in Gaza.

If you or your organization would like to support the relief effort in the Gaza Strip, please contact them or visit their website at www.HISG.org  to donate securely online.

Photo Credits: Top photo courtesy of Amir Cohen, YNet News. Second and third photos courtesy of AFP and BBC News. Map courtesy of World Factbook.

** Michael Ireland, Chief Correspondent of ANS, is an international British freelance journalist who was formerly a reporter with a London (United Kingdom) newspaper and has been a frequent contributor to UCB Europe, a British Christian radio station. Michael has traveled to Albania and the former Yugoslavia, Holland, Germany and the former Czechoslovakia, Israel,and Canada. He has reported for ANS from Jordan, China, Russia, Jamaica, Mexico, and Nicaragua. Michael's involvement with ASSIST News Service is a sponsored ministry department -- Michael Ireland Media Missionary (MIMM) -- of A.C.T. International at: Artists in Christian Testimony (A.C.T.) International.