Gaza’s health care system “stretched beyond the fracture” that warns

Israeli ground operations are being strengthened and new orders for evacuation are stretched out by the Gaza Health System outside the fracture, the head of the World Health Organization (WHO) warned.

Dr. Tedroz Delijan Gebreyz said the Indonesians, Kamal-Advan and Al-Uda hospitals in the northern cities of Beit-Lahia and Jabalia were in the evacuation zone announced on Tuesday. Two more hospitals are within 1 km (0.6 miles) from it.

Kamal Duck was without military service, and the Indonesian hospital was unavailable from the presence of Israeli forces around him, he added.

Al-Uda’s Hospital is still working, but its director said on Wednesday the BBC that “is completely siege”.

“No one can move, and we can’t get any cases outside the hospital,” said D -R -Mohammed Salha.

He added that the hospital was shooting in the surrounding hospital and outdoors and outdoors. “

“We also hear shooting from tanks … possibly 400 or 500 meters (away).”

Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) said the BBC that “operates in the area against targeted terror”, but that “did not know about the siege in the hospital itself.”

Dr. Tedroz said: “Even if medical institutions are not attacked and forced to evacuate, hostilities and military presence impede patients and care staff and who are transferred to hospitals, which can quickly make them unfunctional.”

“We have seen it too many times – it cannot be allowed to happen again.”

Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) also said at least 20 medical institutions were damaged, either forced partially or completely out of operation, last week Israeli ground operations, air blows and evacuation orders.

The charitable organization demanded that the Israeli authorities stop what they call “deliberate asphyxation of gas and the destruction of the health care system”.

On March 2, Israel introduced a general gas blockade and restored military activity against Hamas after two weeks, completing a two -month ceasefire. It states that he wanted to put pressure on Hamas to release the other 58 hostages, up to 23 of which are allegedly alive.

After a few days of intensive bombing on Sunday, IDF launched an extended offensive, which Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said they see ground forces “take control of all areas”. This plan is reportedly included in the complete clearing of the northern civilian population and forcibly displacing them to the south.

Last week, more than 600 people were killed and 2000 injuries across Gaza, the Ministry of Health on the territory reports. The UN says tens of thousands of people were recently displaced.

Netanyahu also said that Israel will allow the “major” amount of food to prevent hunger. But the UN has not yet been able to collect dozens of cargo cargo resources.

MSF said the amount of assistance allowed so far was almost insufficient, describing it as “dimography to pretend the siege was over.”

On Tuesday, the WHO spokesman in the Palestinian territories said he had recently returned from Gaza and witnessed how health care system faced attacks and a sharp lack of supplies.

“Whenever you get into the gas, you always think it can’t deteriorate. But it worsens,” said Dr. Rick Piparcorn in Geneva.

He told how Al-Uda Hospital was “overflowing with injuries” and low supplies. Departure damaged the object, thwarted access, and released people from health care, he added.

He said the Indonesian hospital was practically not working, almost inaccessible, and most patients left last week after the employee was killed, one patient was injured and the institution was damaged during heavy hostilities.

Only 15 people, including patients and staff, were still in the hospital on Tuesday, urgently in need of nutrition and water, he added.

On Monday night, he was also impressed by the generator of the Israeli quadrilateral hospital, which caused great fire and darkening, reports Mer-Indonesia, a non-governmental organization that built the facility.

On Wednesday, a woman at the hospital reported to the BBC by phone that two patients were in a “serious state”.

Against the backdrop of the call, one could hear the accident.

“Five minutes ago, an intense shooting took place in the hospital,” she said, adding that she could see the tanks.

The woman also stated that the hospital still had food, but “faced with the water crisis.”

IDF reported the BBC that it works in the area around the hospital and focusing on “terrorist infrastructure”, but that it does not focus on the hospital itself.

In the next incident, a paramedic said on Tuesday that his ambulance was shot dead by an Israeli drone when he was transporting staff and food between al-Uda and Kamal Adavan hospitals.

Khaled Sade said he was with another ambulance when the bullets hit the windshield of both cars. No one was injured.

Dr. Salha shared photos of the ambulance and confirmed that Mr. Sade could not return to Al-uhda because of the threat of the Israeli fire.

The BBC provided details of the accusations and photos of the IDF, but he said that “could not confirm” the reports.

Hospitals and medical staff are specially protected in accordance with international humanitarian law.

In certain circumstances, hospitals only lose protection. These include use as a basis with which to launch an attack like a depot weapon, or to hide healthy fighters.

IDF insists that its forces act in accordance with international law. In most cases, when he attacked the hospital, he stated that Hamas was inappropriately used – the prosecution refused.

In the southern city of Khan Yunis, the European Hospital is the only object that provides neurosurgery, cardiac aid and cancer treatment – does not work since May 13.

On that day, the hospital and surrounding courtyard were hit by a series of Israeli air strikes, stating that the Israeli defense minister was aimed at the underground bunker, where the head of the military wing Hamas Mohammed Sinwar hid. Gaza Civil Defense Agency said at least 28 people had died, but it is unclear whether Sinwar died.

The building was also located in the Israeli evacuation zone, covering almost all eastern Hann UNIS on Monday.

Dr. Tedroz said that hospitals, Nasser, Al-Amal and Al-Ax, as well as one field hospital were 1 km from the zone.

Dr. Victoria Rose, a British surgeon working at a Nasser hospital, said in a video posted on social media on Wednesday What she was very worried about the evacuation or cut off Israeli troops from Al-Axa, who in the Central city of Deir al-Bala.

“When we cut off from the middle area, there are really no other hospitals around us who could handle the evacuation of the Nasser,” she explained.

“We have some strange field hospitals … But none of them is capable of doing the type of operation we do here. And none of them has the power of intensive care unit and has created oxygen. So, they could not even cope with the number of patients.”

She warned: “If the Nasser is evacuated, we really look at the rapid death of hundreds of patients because we will not be able to take them anywhere.”

Nasser also suffered from an Israeli strike on May 13, killed by two people, including a Palestinian journalist who was treated for the injuries he received in a previous stroke at the camp. According to WHO.

IDF has accused the journalist in Hamas promptly and claimed that the hospital was used by a group for “holding terrorist sites”.

According to the director of the hospital, another strike on Monday badly damaged the medical composition of the Nasser and destroyed the critical who supplies.

Dry Chato, Pharmacist from Khan UNIS, which IDF told to evacuate and head to the camp in the coastal area of ​​al-Mavasi, said the BBC in the voice remark: “I still haven’t left my house because I have not found a place to set up a tent.”

“The humanitarian situation is very serious – neither water, food nor fuel. The shelling is amazing everywhere,” she added.

On October 7, 2023, Israel launched a military campaign in Gaza in response to Hamas’s cross -border attack, which killed about 1,200 people and took 251 people hostage.

At least 53,655 people have been killed in Gaza ever since, including 3.509 after the Israeli offensive, the Ministry of Health of the territory reports.