The United Nations warned on Monday that Israel bombed the area around three hospitals in Gaza this weekend, including the main one in the enclave, Al-Shifa, which houses thousands of patients and internally displaced persons.
In its daily report on the situation in Gaza, which may be updated thanks to the return of telecommunications to the Palestinian enclave on Sunday, the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) indicated that attacks have taken place in near the hospitals in Gaza. Al-Shifa, Al-Quds (both in the capital Gaza) and the Indonesian Hospital, in the northern part of the Palestinian territory.
“The 10 operational hospitals in Gaza City and the northern enclave have received repeated evacuation orders in recent days,” the UN said, adding that some 117,000 internally displaced people are sheltering in these facilities, along with thousands of patients.
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The UN report recalls the World Health Organization’s (WHO) call to suspend these evacuation orders as, according to the United Nations health agency, it is “impossible to remove patients without endangering their lives.”
Another cause for concern for the UN is Saturday’s looting of several humanitarian aid warehouses belonging to the United Nations Palestinian Refugee Agency (UNRWA), a sign according to the United Nations that “civil order is collapsing after weeks of war and severe siege”.
On Sunday, there was an increase in the number of humanitarian aid trucks authorized to enter Gaza through the Rafah crossing, Egypt, to 33, bringing the total since the start of these arrivals on October 21 to 117. approximately 70 of which took medical equipment with them.
According to the UN, citing figures from Gaza’s Health Ministry, 302 Palestinians have been killed in the enclave, bringing the death toll since the start of hostilities on October 7 to 8,005, including 3,324 children and 2,062 women, as well as 1.4 million internally. displaced people.
In the West Bank, the deaths of four more Palestinians in the past 24 hours brought the number of victims of Israeli security forces and Jewish settlers in the past three weeks to 115, including 33 children, while about a thousand people were forced to flee their country. houses. .
In Gaza, “airstrikes appear to be systematically destroying entire residential areas,” the United Nations report denounced, citing bomb attacks such as the one in Jabalia (north of Gaza), which killed 26 on Sunday, leaving another 14 people buried under rubble hit.
In an environment where southern Gaza is no longer seen as safer than the north, “internally displaced people move from one area to another based on the ability to obtain water and food,” the UN report said.
Source: DN
