2023-11-11 01:40:23
During the war in Gaza, Israel has launched 250 attacks against hospitals, clinics or ambulances, both in Gaza and the West Bank, while Hamas has also attacked Israeli health centers 25 times, the director told the UN Security Council this Friday. of the World Health Organization, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus.
“The health system (in Gaza) is on its knees,” said Ghebreyesus, who illustrated his statement with some facts: “Hospital hallways packed with the wounded, sick or dying; morgues packed; operations without anesthesia and tens of thousands of Gazans displaced and refugees in hospitals”.
The director of the WHO had been invited to explain to the Security Council the situation of the health sector in Gaza after a month of war, and He also warned about the risk that among the million and a half of Gazans forcibly displaced and crowded into small spaces“the risk of diarrhea, respiratory diseases and skin infections increases.”
But he also highlighted the fact that among the more than 11,000 dead in Gaza, there are a large number of women and children, and gave a terrible fact: “Every ten minutes,” he stated, “a child dies in Gaza.”
Half of the 36 hospitals in Gaza and two thirds of the primary health centers are already out of service – warned the official, who specified that in the last 48 hours alone four hospitals have been disabled by the bombings, thus losing 430 beds. Ghebreyesus added.
And despite all these dramatic data, the Israeli ambassador to the UN, Gilad Erdan, He justified the attacks on hospitals because he said that Hamas is hiding in their basements and uses its ambulance network to get around.
Erdan, who once again wore the yellow Holocaust star on his lapel, said that the UN “has lost its moral compass” by calling a meeting to condemn the attacks by the Israeli Army when – he said – “Israel does much more for the well-being of Gaza than the UN itself.
And he went further by directly accusing “many” of the employees of the UN agency for Palestinian refugees (UNRWA) of being members of Hamas.
The US ambassador, Robert Wood, asked that hospitals be respected, but repeated many of Israel’s accusations saying that Hamas “cynically uses civilians as human shields by saving their ammunition and weapons in those same hospitals that are being talked about here.
Finally, Friday’s session, in which no resolution was discussed – four have already failed due to vetoes crossed between the US and Russia with China – served once again to show the division of the international community, since the calls Almost universal calls for ceasefire are met with Israel’s refusal and its unconditional ally, the United States.
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