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The Director of the World Health Organization, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, said on Thursday that 10 out of 36 hospitals are partially functioning in Gaza and the health system is barely surviving.
He called for an immediate halt to Israeli attacks on hospitals in Gaza, and for the protection of staff, patients and civilians.
Ghebreyesus warned of the consequences of the collapse of the health system in the besieged Gaza Strip.
He said on the X platform: With only 10 partially functioning hospitals out of 36, the health system in Gaza is barely surviving.
He pointed out that the Palestinian Red Crescent Society announced on Tuesday that Al-Amal Hospital in the city of Khan Yunis (south) had stopped working as a result of the ongoing Israeli army attacks on the facility and its environs.
With only 10 out of 36 hospitals partially functioning, the health system in #Gaza is barely surviving.
On March 26, @PalestineRCS' Al-Amal Hospital in Khan Younis ceased functioning as a result of sustained hostilities in and around the facility.
Once more, @WHO demands an…
- Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus (@DrTedros) March 28, 2024
The organization's director renewed his demand for an immediate halt to attacks on hospitals in Gaza, and called for the protection of health personnel, patients, and civilians.
On Tuesday, the association announced that Al-Amal Hospital had been completely out of service, after the Israeli army forced medical teams to evacuate the hospital and closed its entrances with dirt barriers.
On Sunday, Israeli forces stormed Al-Amal Hospital amid heavy gunfire and carried out bulldozing operations in its vicinity, according to a statement by the Palestinian Red Crescent.
Since the start of its war on Gaza on October 7, Israeli forces have targeted medical facilities and hospitals in various areas of the Strip with systematic and continuous attacks, causing the destruction of the health system, a humanitarian catastrophe, and the deterioration of the infrastructure.
This "bloody war" on Gaza left tens of thousands of civilian casualties, most of them children and women.
Source: Al Jazeera + Anatolia