WHO: Gaza's health sector is rapidly collapsing
On Tuesday, the World Health Organization said it could not afford to lose more such hospitals in southern Gaza, adding: "The health sector in Gaza is rapidly collapsing."
According to ArabNews, although Israeli requests for the evacuation of people in the southern Gaza Strip continue, the World Health Organization has announced that the Zionist regime is putting greater pressure on medical facilities in the region. World Health Organization emergency response team coordinator Sean Casey said on Tuesday that Gaza's hospitals are now "full of patients" and displaced people. According to the Palestinian Health Ministry in Ramallah, only 13 of 36 hospitals in the Gaza Strip are partially functioning, and hospitals are admitting patients several times beyond their capacity. Casey, who was on a World Health Organization mission to hospitals in the Gaza Strip, called the escalating fighting around the European hospital in the city of Khan Younis truly alarming. He stressed: "Health facilities in southern Gaza must not be destroyed. They must be fully protected. This is the last line of health care that exists throughout Gaza." Richard Peppercorn, the World Health Organization's representative in occupied Palestine, also said: "We cannot afford to lose a single hospital." Meanwhile, the American newspaper The Wall Street Journal previously wrote about the difficult situation in the Gaza Strip: “By mid-December of this year, Israel had destroyed 70 percent of the buildings in Gaza and dropped more than 29 thousand rockets and bombs on the strip.” The Wall Street Journal further writes: "The scale of destruction in the Gaza Strip is similar to what happened to Germany during World War II." Israel has said its military goal for the operation is to destroy the Palestinian Islamic resistance movement Hamas. This is despite the fact that many analysts and experts, even within occupied Palestine, consider this goal unrealistic and unattainable.