Gaza (Union)
The World Health Organization warned that launching any military attack on the city of Rafah would lead to an “unimaginable catastrophe,” push the health system in the Gaza Strip to the brink of abyss, and increase the scale of the humanitarian catastrophe “beyond imagination,” noting that the Gaza Strip’s hospitals are completely overcrowded. It does not have sufficient supplies and doctors are forced to perform amputations due to the lack of treatment methods.
The representative of the World Health Organization in the occupied Palestinian territories announced yesterday that less than half of the World Health Organization missions concerned with delivering aid to Gaza have been approved, while the hospitals there are completely overwhelmed.
“The hospitals are completely overwhelmed and do not have sufficient supplies,” Richard Peppercorn said, speaking via video from Gaza.
He explained that employees are forced to perform amputations due to the lack of treatment methods that would enable them to save patients’ limbs through surgery in a natural environment.
Pepperkorn explained that since November, only 40 percent of WHO missions to northern Gaza have been approved, adding that since January, this number has decreased significantly, and the percentage reaches about 45 percent in the south. He added that the rest of the missions were rejected, obstructed, or postponed.
The representative of the World Health Organization in the Palestinian Territories stressed, “This is ridiculous. Even in the event of a ceasefire, there must be humanitarian corridors so that the World Health Organization, the United Nations and their partners can do their work. We must put in place a practical and different system to avoid conflict so that we can Of doing our job.”
He said, “Any Israeli military attack on the city of Rafah will lead to an unimaginable catastrophe and push the health system in the Strip closer to the brink of abyss.”
He added: “Military operations in this crowded area will, of course, be an unimaginable disaster, and will even increase the scale of the humanitarian catastrophe beyond imagination.”
He added: “This will also increase the burden on a completely overburdened health system, increase the burden of shocks, and push the health system closer to the brink of the abyss.”
In this context, the Director of the World Health Organization, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, said yesterday that the organization had lost contact with the Nasser Medical Complex in Khan Yunis in the southern Gaza Strip, expressing his concern about what is happening inside it.
Ghebreyesus wrote on the “X” platform: “Two missions belonging to the organization were prevented during the past four days,” adding: “I am concerned about what is reported about the events inside the Nasser Medical Complex in Gaza, after it remained under siege for about a week.”
The Director of the World Health Organization continued: “Nasser Hospital is the pillar of the health system in southern Gaza, and it must be protected and humanitarian aid allowed to arrive.”
In another context, the United Nations Relief and Works Organization for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA) said yesterday that 5% of the population of the Gaza Strip have been killed, injured or missing since the start of the war on October 7, stressing: “There is no safe place in Gaza.”
The organization added in a blog post on the “X” platform that 17,000 children in Gaza are separated from their parents, and indicated the possibility of an imminent famine.
#World #Health #Organization #Gaza39s #hospitals #overcrowded.. #insufficient #supplies