The director general of the World Health Organization (WHO) stressed this Saturday that the conflict between Israel and Hamas reinforces the “need to reform the UN Security Council”, stating that this body “no longer meets the purpose for the one who was created.”
“That is what this council was created for: peace and security. But this crisis shows, once again, the need to reform the UN Security Council. I felt nostalgic when I entered this room because I remembered the times when I was Minister of Foreign Affairs Foreign Affairs. Foreign Affairs. My view has always been that the Security Council no longer serves the purpose for which it was created,” warned Tedros Ghebreyesus, further stating that the Security Council “represents the politics of World War II and not the XXI century”.
“As Minister of Foreign Affairs I was part of a group that worked to reform the Security Council,” he highlights, also regretting the situation in the Gaza Strip.
“I know the image of war. I know what war means. When my mother heard gunshots at night, she made us sleep under the bed, with more blankets on top, hoping that we would be protected if a bombing hit our house “It was a mother’s instinct to protect her children,” she said.
Tedros Ghebreyesus says he understands “what the parents of Gaza are going through” because, in 1998, during the war in Ethiopia, their children “had to hide from the bombing in a shelter.”
“I experienced war as a child and as a parent. I know how children feel and I know how parents feel. Children and parents in Gaza and Israel want and need the same thing that my family wanted and needed: peace and security “, reinforces.
The WHO director general also reports that in the last 48 hours “four hospitals became inoperative” in Gaza, meaning 430 beds were lost.
“More than 100 United Nations colleagues have already died. And the number continues to rise. As we speak, there are reports of shootings in the vicinity of Al-Shifa and Rantisi hospitals. Half of the 36 hospitals and 23 primary care centers in Gaza are not operating,” he highlights, further explaining that those who are operating “are operating above their capacity.”
“The healthcare system is on its knees. Yet somehow it continues to provide healthcare. The best way to support these healthcare professionals, and the people they serve, is to give them the tools they need to take care of their health,” he appeals. .
Israeli attacks on the Al-Shifa hospital, the largest in the Gaza Strip, intensified “dramatically” overnight, the non-governmental organization Doctors Without Borders (MSF) reported this Saturday.
Source: TSF
