The World Health Organization (WHO) appealed this fifth fair for a humanitarian pause in the conflict between Israel and Hamas, so that Palestinians can have access to health care and humanitarian aid, stressing that, under current conditions, this objective is ” almost impossible”.
“WHO will do everything in its power to ensure that everyone in Gaza has access to life-saving medical care and humanitarian aid. In the current situation, this is almost impossible. At the very least, we need a pause in aid humanitarian aid in the conflict and, ideally, a ceasefire,” said WHO Director-General Tedros Ghebreyesus at a press conference.
Tedros Ghebreyesus also laments the deaths of more than 10,000 people since Hamas’ “horrible” attack on Israel, adding that it includes “more than 850 dead in Gaza and 140 in Israel,” and on both sides, “70% are women.” and kids”. “.
The director general of the WHO considers that the situation in Gaza is “indescribable”, denouncing that the hospitals that still function are overcrowded, there is no space in the morgues to collect all the dead and there are hundreds of surgeries performed without any type of anesthesia , something that he considers “unsustainable.”
“The WHO verified 237 attacks on health centers, of which 218 in the occupied Palestinian territories and 19 in Israel. Attacks on health centers are a violation of international humanitarian law,” he highlights.
With the intensification of bombing and the ground offensive, living conditions are increasingly difficult, a problem also aggravated by the fact that the sewage system is not functioning, which increases the risk of highly communicable diseases.
Of the 36 existing hospitals in Gaza, 14 are already out of service and the others are running out of condition. Tedros Ghebreyesus says the choices imposed on Palestinians
They are impractical.
“Forced departure, in these circumstances, would put the lives of thousands of patients at risk, who already are. Transporting a baby who is in intensive care would already be a danger in the richest countries, doing so in Gaza represents a risk” . to the life of a child, whose life has just begun. Making these demands puts patients and doctors in an impossible situation and, in most cases, they have nowhere to go,” she highlights.
Tedros Ghebreyesus affirms, therefore, that the “minimum” that needs to be done is “a humanitarian pause”, but, if not even that is possible, at least the possibility of opening humanitarian corridors with security guarantees for the doctors and volunteers who want to enter Gaza.
Source: TSF
