The head of the World Health Organization (WHO) condemned this Wednesday the “unacceptable attacks” that the Palestinian Red Crescent says suffered at its facilities in Khan Younes, in the Gaza Strip, target of Israeli bombings.
“I deplore today’s attacks on the Al-Amal Red Crescent Hospital.” Today’s bombings are unacceptable,” said Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, in a publication on the social network X.
The attack Severely damaged the training center of the Palestinian Red Crescent. located in the Al-Amal hospital complex, in the city of Khan Younis, managed by this organization, according to Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus.
“Gaza’s health system is already on its knees, and both health workers and humanitarians continually find their life-saving efforts stymied by hostilities,” he added.
Tedros highlighted that officials from the WHO and the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) visited the facilities, where “witnessed extensive damage and displacement of civilians”.
According to the Palestinian Red Crescent, the attacks killed at least five civilians, including a five-day-old child, the WHO leader stressed.
“14,000 people were taking refuge in the hospital in the besieged city of Khan Younis, in southern Gaza. Many of them have already left and the rest greatly fear for their safety and plan to leave a place where they have gone to seek refuge and protection,” he added.
Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus once again insisted on a call for “an immediate ceasefire”, which includes “urgent actions” to guarantee the supply of food, medical equipment, water and other essential goods.
The official also highlighted that “WHO movements, especially in northern Gaza and increasingly in the south,” are being “severely hampered by the current violence within Gaza.”
“Our operations are further hampered when essential local partners, such as the Palestinian Red Crescent, are unnecessarily affected by attacks,” he added.
The most recent conflict between Israel and Hamas was triggered after an unprecedented attack by the Palestinian Islamist movement on Israeli territory on October 7 of last year, massacring 1,140 people, mostly civilians and including around 400 soldiers, according to official figures. from Tel Aviv.
In retaliation, Israel, which has vowed to eliminate the Palestinian movement, launched a large-scale offensive in the Gaza Strip, where, according to the local government, more than 22,000 people – mostly women, children and adolescents – have already been killed and injured. . more than 57 thousand, mostly civilians.
Source: TSF
