On Friday, the Director-General of the World Health Organization warned before the UN Security Council that the health system in the Gaza Strip had become “completely exhausted,” saying that half of the 36 hospitals in the Strip were out of service.
Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said, as reported by Agence France-Presse: “It is impossible to describe the situation on the ground: hospital corridors crowded with wounded, sick and dying people, crowded morgues, surgeries without anesthesia, tens of thousands of refugees,” noting that “more than 250 attacks” had occurred. On health institutions in Gaza and the West Bank since the Hamas attack on Israel on October 7.
A small amount of humanitarian aid has entered the Gaza Strip since October 7, including medicines, which has put pressure on health facilities in the Gaza Strip, in addition to Israel targeting ambulances, cutting off electricity, and preventing the entry of fuel needed to operate electricity generators in hospitals.
During Thursday night and Friday morning, Israel targeted several hospitals in the northern Gaza Strip, which led to dozens of deaths and injuries among the displaced people who were taking shelter in those hospitals, while the death toll in the Israeli attacks on the Gaza Strip rose to more than 11,000 dead and 2,700 missing. .
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2023-11-12 17:42:35
