UN Organizations: The international community should stop Israeli attacks against Gaza hospitals
United Nations agencies today called for urgent international action to stop the attacks carried out by the Zionist regime of Israel against hospitals in the Gaza Strip. The call has been issued while the Israeli regime continues its attacks of mass destruction against the Palestinian people. The regional directors of the United Nations Population and Reproductive Health Organization UNFPA, UNICEF and the World Health Organization WHO, have said they are "horrified by recent reports which show that many people have been killed, including children in health centers in Gaza City and in the northern areas of the Strip."
It should be noted that, the illegal regime of Israel launched its war of mass destruction against Gaza on October 7 after the Palestinian liberation movement carried out a surprise operation against the Zionists named Al Aqsa Storm. Since then, the illegal Israeli regime has killed more than 11,000 Palestinians, including 4,506 children, while 27,490 others have been injured. Israel has continued its brutality by cutting off water and electricity in Gaza while preventing fuel, medicine and food from entering the most densely populated Gaza area in the world with more than two million Palestinian residents. An ambulance attacked by the brutal Israeli army in Gaza According to the joint statement, "Children who are born prematurely and who are born with the help of life-saving equipment are reported to die due to lack of electricity, oxygen and water in Al-Shifa Hospital, while others are in danger."
In the past 36 days, the WHO has recorded at least 137 attacks carried out by Israel against the health care system in Gaza, resulting in 521 deaths and 686 injuries, including 16 deaths and 38 health care injuries, the directors of the tapes have said. The joint statement emphasized that "The world cannot remain silent when hospitals, which should be safe places, are transformed into places of death, destruction, and despair. Strong international action is needed now to achieve an immediate humanitarian ceasefire, to prevent further losses of life and preserve what is left of the health care system in Gaza". Al-Shifa and Al-Quds, the largest and second largest hospitals in Gaza, respectively, said on Sunday that they had suspended their services due to the ongoing Israeli attacks as the World Health Organization called for an immediate ceasefire to prevent deaths. are increasing. So far more than 100 UN staff have been killed in Israeli attacks against Gaza.
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