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Gaza City, northern Gaza Strip, was bombed
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(Geneva = Yonhap News) Correspondent Ahn Hee = The World Health Organization (WHO) reported that the supply of medical relief supplies was cut off for a long time due to the intensification of fighting in the northern Gaza Strip of Palestine, raising concerns that local hospitals would lose their functions.
WHO said in a statement on the 23rd (local time), “The humanitarian situation in the Gaza Strip remains serious, and the northern region, which has been isolated due to the Israeli military’s continuous bombing and blockade strategy, has become difficult to operate hospitals due to shortages of various medical supplies and fuel.”
WHO reported that only 6% of the relief supplies that were supposed to be supplied to the northern Gaza Strip as of the 21st of this month were allowed to be brought in by Israeli authorities.
WHO explained, “Hospitals in the northern part of the Gaza Strip have actually paralyzed their functions,” and medical institutions in the region, including Indonesian hospitals and Al-Awda Hospital, are unable to provide proper treatment due to power shortages due to fuel depletion and medical supplies being exhausted.
WHO pointed out that at Carl Adwan Hospital, another hospital in the northern Gaza Strip, some patients have died due to lack of treatment.
WHO criticized Israel for attempting to send additional relief workers and medical teams to the northern Gaza Strip amid an unprecedented medical crisis, but Israel is not authorizing entry.
In the northern Gaza Strip, even the polio vaccination project is experiencing setbacks.
To prevent the spread of polio in the Gaza Strip, WHO administered the first polio vaccination to 559,000 local children last September. This was thanks to an agreement between Israel and Hamas to cease fighting for 9 hours a day in areas scheduled for vaccination.
WHO began administering the second polio vaccination on the 14th. It is believed that children must receive the second vaccination to build immunity and significantly reduce the spread of the virus.
It was a three-stage project conducted in the central, southern, and northern Gaza Strip in that order, and 442,855 children in the first and second stages, the central and southern regions, were successfully vaccinated.
Vaccination for 119,279 children in the northern Gaza Strip was scheduled for this day, but was postponed due to the ongoing air raids.
WHO said, “In the northern part of the Gaza Strip, the area where fighting has been promised is limited to Gaza City, and families are unable to safely bring their children to the vaccination site.”
“If children do not receive the second vaccination within six weeks, the effectiveness of the vaccine will decrease and the virus may spread not only to the Gaza Strip but also to neighboring countries,” he said. “The warring parties must guarantee safety for medical services and call for an immediate humanitarian ceasefire.” “We must do this,” he urged.
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