Males keep it up a stretcher the physique of a sufferer who was rescued from the rubble after the Israeli bombardment of the four-story house of the Muqat household within the Zarqa neighborhood of northern Gaza Metropolis, October 26, 2024. | Picture credit score: AFP
The top of the World Well being Group warned on Saturday (26 October 2024) of a disastrous scenario within the war-torn northern Gaza Strip, with “intensive navy operations being deployed round and inside well being services” .
“The scenario in northern Gaza is catastrophic,” Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus mentioned in X, warning that “a essential scarcity of medical provides, compounded by severely restricted entry, is depriving folks of life-saving care.”
He famous specifically the scenario at Kamal Adwan, the final working hospital in northern Gaza, which was stormed by Israeli forces on Friday, in accordance with the Gaza Well being Ministry.
The Ministry reported that the assault on the services of the Jabalia camp, the place Israel launched a serious operation earlier this month, left two kids lifeless.
And he accused Israeli forces of detaining a whole lot of staff, sufferers and displaced folks through the raid.
The Israeli navy mentioned its forces have been working round Kamal Adwan, however have been “not conscious of any stay fireplace or assaults within the hospital space.”
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Tedros mentioned on Saturday (26 October 2024) that the Gaza Well being Ministry had knowledgeable the WHO, which had briefly misplaced contact with its employees on the hospital amid the chaos, that the siege had ended.
“However this got here at a excessive value,” he mentioned.
On Friday night time (October 25, 2024), the WHO mentioned three well being staff and one other worker have been injured within the assault and that dozens of well being staff have been detained on the hospital, the place round 600 have been sheltering. sufferers, healthcare staff and others.
“Following the arrest of 44 male employees, solely feminine employees, the hospital director and a health care provider are left to look after almost 200 sufferers in determined want of medical care,” Tedros mentioned on Saturday (Oct 26, 2024).
“Studies of injury or destruction of hospital services and medical provides through the siege are deplorable,” he mentioned.
Tedros lamented that “all the well being system in Gaza has been beneath assault for greater than a yr,” because the October 7 Hamas assaults inside Israel final yr sparked the battle.
That assault brought on the demise of 1,206 folks, largely civilians, in accordance with a AFP depend of official Israeli figures.
Dozens of hostages captured that day stay held by militants in Gaza.
Israel’s retaliation marketing campaign has killed 42,924 folks in Gaza, most of them civilians, in accordance with figures from the Hamas-controlled territory’s Well being Ministry that the United Nations considers dependable.
“The WHO can’t stress sufficient that hospitals should be shielded from battle always,” Tedros mentioned, stressing that “any assault on well being services is a violation of worldwide humanitarian regulation.”
“The one method to safeguard what stays of Gaza’s collapsed well being system is an instantaneous and unconditional ceasefire.”
Printed – October 26, 2024 09:39 pm IST
