A United Nations report published on Tuesday concluded that the strikes carried out by the Israeli occupation army, which have continued since October 2023 on hospitals or their surroundings in the Gaza Strip, have brought the health system in the Strip to the “brink of complete collapse.”
The UN High Commissioner for Human Rights said in a statement accompanying the report that “the pattern of deadly Israeli attacks on and around Gaza’s hospitals, and the associated combat operations, has pushed the health care system to the brink of total collapse, disastrously affecting Palestinians’ ability to access health and medical care.”
The statement pointed out that the Israeli allegations about the presence of militants in hospitals in Gaza are "vague and vague."
“In most cases, Israel claims that Palestinian armed factions were using hospitals. However, to date, it has provided little information to substantiate these claims, which have remained vague and broad, and in some cases appear to contradict publicly available information,” it said.
The United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, Volker Türk, denounced that Gaza hospitals had turned into a "death trap."
“As if the ongoing bombardment and dire humanitarian situation in Gaza were not enough, the only place where Palestinians should feel safe has become a death trap,” he said, stressing that “protecting hospitals during war is of utmost importance, and all parties must respect this principle at all times.”
On Monday, the International Committee of the Red Cross confirmed that the war had undermined the health care system in northern Gaza, noting that Kamal Adwan and Indonesian hospitals were completely out of service.
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UN report: Gaza's health system on brink of total collapse