WHO: Amputations are performed in Gaza without anesthesia

A World Health Organization (WHO) official, explaining the shortage of drugs and essential medical equipment in Gaza, said that some of the wounded in the Gaza Strip are undergoing amputations without anesthesia. According to Christian Lindmeier noted at a press conference in Geneva: “Nothing justifies the horror that civilians are experiencing in the Gaza Strip.” He also stressed that they desperately need water, fuel, food and safe access to medical care to survive. Echoing the UN's call for unhindered and safe access to some 500 aid trucks a day, Lindmeyer called for a solution to the problem of patients and hospitals performing amputations without anesthesia. He further added that the level of death and suffering is difficult to imagine. He also noted that at least 16 medical workers have died in the line of duty, emphasizing that any attack on medical workers is prohibited under international humanitarian law. Meanwhile, the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) announced on Tuesday that the committee's humanitarian convoy was attacked while delivering essential medical equipment to health centers in the Gaza Strip.

The World Health Organization has warned that the Gaza Strip's health care system is on the verge of collapse due to the blockade of the Gaza Strip and attacks by the Zionist regime. The occupation regime continues to stubbornly reject a ceasefire on humanitarian grounds, ignoring all international laws. On October 7, Palestinian resistance forces launched Operation Al-Aqsa Storm in response to the crimes of the Zionist regime in the Occupied Palestinian Territories. The Zionist regime, having suffered the biggest defeat in its 75-year history in the face of this operation, launched full-scale attacks on the Gaza Strip. The main purpose of these attacks is to kill residents of the Gaza Strip in order to force them to evacuate from the Gaza Strip. The latest Zionist regime crime statistics in Gaza show that so far, at least 11,000 Palestinians have been martyred and at least 27,000 injured as a result of the Zionist regime's brutal attacks on the Gaza Strip. More than 2,200 missing people have also been registered, of which more than 1,300 are children and are still under the rubble.