Last night, the Security Council discussed the health situation in the Gaza Strip.

Members listened to two briefings from the Director-General of the World Health Organization, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, and from the Director-General of the Palestine Red Crescent Society, Marwan Al-Jilani.

Ghebreyesus said, "Since October 7, the World Health Organization has documented the occurrence of about 250 attacks on health care in Gaza and the West Bank, in which about 100 United Nations employees in Gaza were killed."

He added, "As we speak, there are reports of gunfire outside Al-Shifa and Al-Rantisi hospitals," in addition to the fact that half of Gaza's hospitals and two-thirds of its primary health care centers are out of service, and even other facilities are operating beyond their maximum capacity.

"The health sector in Gaza is collapsed, but it is still providing some life-saving care," he said.

He explained that the best way to support health workers and those who serve them is to provide the tools they need to provide care, such as medicine, medical equipment, and fuel for hospital generators, noting that field hospitals and emergency medical teams can complement and support the work of hospitals and medical workers in Gaza, but they cannot To replace them.

For his part, Al-Jilani called on the council members via video technology to “do everything in their power to prevent more deaths and more suffering,” speaking about the situation in Al-Quds Hospital in Gaza City, which was exposed to gunfire on Friday.

Al-Jilani called on the Security Council and the international community to ensure the implementation of an effective and immediate ceasefire, and the immediate arrival of fuel to Gaza “to prevent further deaths and unnecessary suffering,” and the need to increase humanitarian aid and ensure unconditional relief reaches the northern Gaza Strip, where hundreds of thousands of refugees remain there. They have no safe places to go.

Al-Jilani expressed his hope that the Council and the international community would listen to the “blood-soaked cries of children,” stressing that “the health sector is under attack in Gaza.”

In turn, the Permanent Representative of Palestine to the United Nations, Ambassador Riyad Mansour, said that the Palestinians bear “death, displacement, pain and suffering in a way that the human mind cannot comprehend, and greater than any human heart can bear.”

Mansour added, “Bombs fall everywhere: north, south, east, west, and on schools, universities, hospitals, United Nations shelters, cars, convoys, people walking, and ambulances, and kill civilians, doctors, journalists, United Nations employees, and humanitarian rescue teams,” wondering where the Palestinians should go. ?.

Mansour called on the Security Council to “stop the massacre now,” stressing the need to implement the General Assembly’s resolution.