Health authorities in the Gaza Strip said on Sunday that a “UN team” will arrive at Al-Shifa Medical Complex, on a mission “to remove premature babies.”
Al-Hurra correspondent quoted the General Director of Hospitals in the Gaza Strip, Muhammad Zaqout, as saying, “A team from the World Health Organization will go to the Shifa Complex to remove 32 premature babies.”
For her part, the regional spokeswoman for the International Committee of the Red Cross, Alyona Sinenko, told Al-Hurra TV, “The situation in Al-Shifa Hospital is extremely tragic.”
She added that there is “huge pressure on hospitals, and we need to ensure the safety of health sector workers, including our teams in the Gaza Strip.”
Sinenko continued: “We always call for support for the injured and for the flow of humanitarian aid.”
Regarding the possibility of establishing field hospitals outside the Gaza Strip, whether on land or at sea, she said: “It is not possible to talk about concrete plans about that, as there are various discussions currently taking place, but health care in Gaza today is in a very dangerous situation.”
On Saturday, a team from the World Health Organization visited Al-Shifa Hospital to assess the situation, describing the largest medical complex in the besieged sector as a “death zone,” explaining that there are “more than 300 people, including patients and medical care providers, who are still present there.”
On a mission that the organization described as “high-risk,” the team included public health experts, logistical personnel, and security personnel from various United Nations departments.
The organization said, “Due to security risks, the team was able to spend only one hour inside the hospital, describing it as a death zone.”
She added that “291 patients and 25 caregivers were still in the hospital on Saturday.”
“Death Zone”.. The World Health Organization visits Al-Shifa Hospital and reveals the number of people in it
The World Health Organization said in a statement that a humanitarian assessment team led by the World Health Organization visited Al-Shifa Hospital in northern Gaza, on Saturday, to assess the situation, describing the largest medical complex in the besieged Strip as a “death zone,” and that there were more than 300 people, including patients and caregivers. Medically, they are still there.
Signs of bombing and shooting were clear. The organization’s statement said that the team “saw a mass grave at the entrance to the hospital, and was told that more than 80 people were buried there.”
The Director of the World Health Organization, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, stated in a post on the X platform that the organization’s team “saw an inoperable hospital: no water, no food, no electricity, and medical supplies were exhausted.”
He added: “Given this unfortunate situation and the condition of many patients, including infants, health workers have requested support to evacuate patients who can no longer receive life-saving care there. We are working with partners to develop an urgent evacuation plan and request full facilitation of this plan.” .
The spark of war broke out on October 7, when Hamas launched an unprecedented attack on Israel, killing about 1,200 people, most of them civilians, including women and children. The movement also kidnapped about 240 hostages, including foreigners, and transferred them to the Gaza Strip.
On the other hand, Israel has responded since that date with continuous bombing and ground incursions, which resulted in the deaths of more than 12,300 people, most of them civilians, including women and children, according to health authorities in the Palestinian Strip, which has been controlled by Hamas since 2007.
2023-11-19 07:59:34
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