GAZA (Palestine Foundation Information Center) The Director-General of the World Health Organization (WHO), Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, said on Wednesday that Israel’s intensive ground operations in Gaza and new evacuation orders have pushed the health system beyond the point of collapse.
In a post on X, Ghebreyesus pointed out that the Indonesian, Kamal Adwan, and Al-Awda hospitals, three clinics, and four health points are located within the evacuation zone announced by the Israeli occupation army on Tuesday.
He also noted that two other hospitals, four clinics, and six health points are located one kilometer away from the aforementioned area.
Ghebreyesus mentioned that the European Gaza Hospital and other health points in southern Gaza are located within the evacuation zones announced on Monday.
He added that the Nasser Medical Complex, Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital, five clinics, and 17 health centers are located about one kilometer from this area.
“Even if health facilities in Gaza are not attacked or forced to evacuate, attacks on the areas there and the presence of soldiers prevent patients from accessing health care and prevent the World Health Organization from resupplying hospitals. This could quickly disrupt the work of hospitals,” he asserted.
Ghebreyesus reiterated WHO’s demand for immediate protection of health services, stressing the need to refrain from targeting hospitals and to cease fire.
Earlier on Monday, the Government Media Office (GMO) in the Gaza Strip revealed that the starvation policy imposed by Israel in the Gaza Strip has led to 58 deaths due to malnutrition and 242 deaths due to food and medicine shortages, including 26 kidney patients and 300 miscarriages among pregnant women during 80 days of Israeli siege following the Israeli violation of the ceasefire agreement.
The Israeli occupation forces resumed their aggression against the Gaza Strip on March 18, with airstrikes launched across the Strip, killing and injuring more than 12,000 Palestinians, in violation of a ceasefire agreement with Palestinian resistance factions that had lasted for about 60 days.
