Israel has put Gaza healthcare on ‘brink of total collapse’: UN
The Israeli regime has placed Gaza’s healthcare system on the verge of collapse, the United Nations human rights office says.
Practically all the hospitals in northern Gaza have become dysfunctional. Israel is hard at work cleansing the area of the indigenous Palestinian population.
The UN rights office said in a 28-page report issued on Tuesday that the Israeli military has carried out “at least 136 strikes on 27 hospitals and 12 other medical facilities” since October 7, 2023.
It says the strikes on health facilities have left “significant casualties among doctors, nurses, medics and other civilians and causing significant damage to, if not the complete destruction of, civilian infrastructure.”
“Israel’s pattern of deadly attacks on and near hospitals in Gaza, and associated combat, pushed the healthcare system to the brink of total collapse, with catastrophic effect on Palestinians’ access to health and medical care.”
In attacking health facilities across Gaza, the regime has employed the pretext of the buildings being used by the Palestinian resistance fighters. But the victims are invariably civilians.
Over the weekend, the Ahli Arab Hospital in Gaza was struck by an Israeli artillery shell, leading to the destruction of a doctor's clinic located on the top floor of the Diagnostic Center Building.
The Diocese of Jerusalem al-Quds, which owns and manages Ahli Arab Hospital, condemned the attack alongside other assaults on the healthcare system in the Gaza Strip, particularly in the northern region.
Al Ahli Hospital attacked (again!) Israel has crossed all red lines while the world is watching pic.twitter.com/PH43Dp4v3f
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The UN report said Israel’s claims are “vague and broad.”
“Insufficient information has so far been made publicly available to substantiate these allegations.”
On Tuesday, UN human rights chief Volker Turk also condemned Israel for turning Gaza hospitals into a “death trap.”
“As if the relentless bombing and the dire humanitarian situation in Gaza were not enough, the one sanctuary where Palestinians should have felt safe in fact became a death trap.”
Gaza hospitals have turned into a refuge for people whose homes have been bombarded, or who fear they will be, by the regime’s military.
Israel forcefully evacuated the last major health facility in north Gaza on December 27, after months of relentless airstrikes and ground attacks.
At the time of the evacuation, at least 350 people, including 75 patients, were still inside the building, according to Gaza’s Health Ministry.
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