“The WHO team has recorded heartbreaking testimonies from medical staff and victims about the suffering caused by the explosions,” the head of the UN agency, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, said on X (formerly Twitter).
‘A child lost his entire family in the attack [israelita] across the field. A nurse at the hospital suffered the same loss, her entire family was murdered,” he added on social media.
Initially, the Hamas Health Ministry announced the deaths of at least 70 people in an attack on Sunday evening on the Al-Maghazi refugee camp in the center of the Gaza Strip. The number of deaths was revised upwards to 106, according to the Associated Press, when hospital data was consulted.
According to the AFP news agency, numerous lifeless bodies in white body bags were lined up next to Al-Aqsa Hospital in Deir al-Balah, in the center of the Gaza Strip, before the funerals.
The Israeli military said it would “verify the incident.”
According to the head of the WHO, the hospital indicated that it had received a hundred injured people after the bombing. “The number of hospitalized patients far exceeds bed and staff capacity,” he pointed out. “Many will not survive the wait.”
“This latest attack on a Gaza community shows why an immediate ceasefire is necessary,” Ghebreyesus wrote.
Sean Casey, a member of the WHO mission, said he witnessed the care being provided to a seriously injured 9-year-old boy named Ahmed. “He was simply treated with a sedative to alleviate his suffering before he died,” he described in a video recorded at the hospital.
“Nobody could do anything for him. As in so many other cases, there are no conditions to deal with complex neurological cases, cases of complex trauma,” he lamented.
“The operating rooms work 24 hours a day without interruption. The emergency room is far below capacity,” this WHO official added. “An unacceptable situation that must stop,” he emphasized.
The people of the Gaza Strip are also facing an unprecedented human crisis, due to the collapse of hospitals, outbreaks of epidemics and shortages of drinking water, food, medicine and electricity. Since October 7, more than 300 Palestinians have also been killed by the Israeli army and settler attacks in the West Bank and East Jerusalem occupied by the Jewish state.
Source: DN
