GENEVA (Palestine Foundation Information Center) The Euro-Med Human Rights Monitor warned that those who have survived Israel’s ongoing air, land, and sea raids on the Gaza Strip face an imminent risk of death and a dire lack of medication at a time of serious spread of epidemics.
The Euro-Med Monitor strongly denounced Israel’s ban on medical supplies to hospitals and pharmacies in the Gaza Strip, particularly in Gaza City and its northern areas, considering the measure as a death sentence for thousands of injured and sick people and another weapon of its genocide crime aimed to cause severe physical and psychological damage to the people of Gaza that finally results in their death.
Testimonies gathered by the Euro-Med team from medical officials and pharmacy owners indicate that, over three months after Israel’s genocide war against Palestinian civilians, the suffering of patients in the Gaza Strip is increasing at an unprecedented rate.
According to medical officials, there is a severe shortage of most medications, painkillers, and other supplies needed for primary care, emergency care, and central care. The shortage even includes child vaccines and infant formula.
This cruel health situation, according to Euro-Med, casts a negative light on hospitals and patients.
Euro-Med has reiterated its call for the international community’s parties, particularly those who have ratified the Geneva Conventions and the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide, to take decisive action to halt Israel’s genocide against the people of the Gaza Strip, protect civilians and medical facilities, make sure that they are never targeted, and hold accountable those involved in these crimes and violations.
