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Israel’s ongoing attacks on Al Shifa Hospital in the Gaza Strip are “completely unacceptable”, World Health Organization (WHO) Director-General Tedros Adhanom said. Hospitals are not meant to be
Israel’s ongoing attacks on Al Shifa Hospital in the Gaza Strip are “completely unacceptable”, World Health Organization (WHO) Director-General Tedros Adhanom said.
Hospitals are not meant to be battlefields and we are extremely concerned about the safety of staff and patients.
The Ethiopian expert emphasized that WHO has lost contact with Al Shifa staffGaza’s main hospital.
He also regretted it They had not received updated information on the dead and wounded for three days. in the Gaza Strip, “which limits our ability to assess the performance of the health system.”
“What we do know is that only a quarter of Gaza’s hospitals continue to function, and 26 out of 36 have closed due to damage caused by terrorist attacks or because they ran out of fuel,” the WHO chief lamented.
“Before the conflict, there were about 3,500 hospital beds in Gaza; now it is estimated that there are only about 1,400, with many more patients. Doctors and nurses have to make impossible decisions about who lives and who doesn’t.“, he condemned.
Tedros Adhanom reiterated the need for fuel to flow into Gaza to power hospitals and other essential services on the day Israel first approved the import of 23,000 liters, although in principle only for trucks carrying humanitarian aid.
“At least 120,000 liters of fuel per day are needed to power hospital generators, ambulances, desalination plants, wastewater treatment plants and telecommunications,” he warned at a press conference.
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Tedros, who on Tuesday also received relatives of Israeli hostages kidnapped in Gaza at WHO headquarters, reiterated his concern about their situation but insisted on the humanitarian emergency affecting the Gaza population and the importance of protecting the health of the sites during the conflict .
“According to international humanitarian law, medical institutions, their staff, ambulances and patients must be protected from any military action,” he recalled.
“Even if they have been used for military purposes, the principles of distinction (between civilian and military), precaution and proportionality always prevail,” said the WHO director-general. (EFE)
Source: Aristegui Noticias
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