PALESTINE

Tue 09 Jul 2024 12:02 pm - Jerusalem Time

All Red Crescent medical clinics in Gaza are out of service

The Palestinian Red Crescent Society said on Tuesday, “All medical points and emergency clinics affiliated with the Society in Gaza Governorate are out of service.”


She explained that the departure of her facilities from service came due to the occupation’s forced eviction measures in various areas in the governorate, where medical points and clinics are located.


It is noteworthy that only 15 out of 36 hospitals in the Gaza Strip are operating, and all of them are partially functioning, and are facing a severe shortage of workers and medical supplies, including anesthesia and antibiotics, leaving health care workers struggling to save lives.


About 500 health sector staff were martyred, hundreds were injured, and the Israeli occupation forces arrested more than 310 others and destroyed 130 ambulances during their ongoing aggression against the Gaza Strip for 9 months.


The World Health Organization warned that the volume of medical supplies entering Gaza is insufficient to sustain the health response and that all medical evacuations outside Gaza remain halted.


Despite the assurances of international and international human rights organizations that targeting hospitals and the health system is a clear violation of the principles and standards of international humanitarian law and the Fourth Geneva Convention, which guarantees special protection for hospitals and health centers during the outbreak of armed conflicts and wars, and that targeting them constitutes a crime against humanity and amounts to a war crime, the occupation continues. Its targeting of hospitals and health infrastructure in the Gaza Strip, in disregard of all international and humanitarian laws.

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All Red Crescent medical clinics in Gaza are out of service