Displaced people are evacuated from the Nasser Medical Complex besieged by the occupation army (social networking sites)

Director-General of the World Health Organization, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, said that the Gaza Strip has become a death zone, and that the health and humanitarian situation in the Strip continues to deteriorate, and he called for a ceasefire and allowing humanitarian aid to reach the population.

Tedros asked during a press conference held yesterday, Wednesday, in Geneva, "In what world do we live when people cannot obtain food and water, or when people who cannot even walk cannot obtain care?"

He expressed his denunciation of the targeting of medical facilities and teams in Gaza by the Israeli army, and said, “In what world do we live when medical teams are exposed to the danger of bombing while doing their work? In what world do we live when hospitals are forced to close their doors because they lack electricity and medicine to save patients, and because they have become targets for the army.” Israeli?

He pointed out that "the Gaza Strip has become a death zone, where a large portion of the territory has been destroyed, more than 29,000 people have been killed, many others are missing and are presumed dead, and a very large number have been injured."

The director of the World Health Organization warned that levels of acute malnutrition in the Gaza Strip had risen significantly, and called for an immediate ceasefire in the Strip, a halt to the Israeli bombing, and allowing aid to reach those in need. He stressed the need for humanity to prevail instead of killing.

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Nasser Medical Complex

Tedros indicated that the World Health Organization, along with its partners, carried out emergency operations at Nasser Hospital in the city of Khan Yunis, south of the Gaza Strip, during the last three days.

He confirmed that about 130 patients and at least 15 doctors and nurses are still in the hospital, which Israeli forces have imposed a siege on and launched successive attacks on.

He explained that the intensive care unit in the hospital was no longer working, and that the World Health Organization was helping to transfer patients to other hospitals.

World Health spokesman Tarek Jasarevic announced last Tuesday that the organization carried out two missions on February 18 and 19, during which 32 patients in critical condition, including two children, were transferred from the Nasser Medical Complex in Khan Yunis.

Jasarevic explained - during a press conference - that the two missions were high-risk, and were carried out in cooperation with the Palestine Red Crescent Society and the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA).

Since the beginning of its aggression against the Gaza Strip, which has been ongoing for about 5 months, the Israeli army has launched a military campaign against the health system in the Gaza Strip, targeting hospitals, ambulances, and medical teams in the Strip.

It has recently escalated its targeting of Khan Yunis hospitals, as it besieged the Nasser Medical Complex for weeks before storming it over the past few days and forcing thousands of displaced Palestinians to leave it. It also forced the displaced to leave Al-Amal Medical Hospital in the city, where they were taking shelter from Israeli bombing.

The Ministry of Health in Gaza said - last Thursday - that the Israeli army turned the Nasser Medical Complex into a military barracks after raiding it, while the Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas) denied the occupation’s claims that there were prisoners being held inside the complex.

The Ministry confirmed in a statement that the occupation is targeting the ambulance headquarters and the tents of the displaced, bulldozing the mass graves inside the complex, and forcing the remaining displaced people and the families of the medical teams to forcibly move from the complex under bombardment and threats.

Source: French + Anadolu Agency