United Nations experts express their dismay at the ongoing targeting of the healthcare system in Gaza by the occupation.

United Nations experts expressed their dismay today at the targeted destruction of the healthcare system in Gaza by Israeli occupation forces, considering this destruction to be a form of "medical genocide." The experts accused the occupation of deliberately attacking and starving healthcare workers, paramedics, and hospitals, with the aim of eliminating medical care in the besieged territory.

The Special Rapporteur on the right to health, Taling Mofokeng, and the Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the occupied Palestinian territory since 1967, Francesca Albanese, stated that as UN experts, they cannot remain silent regarding the crimes being committed in Gaza. They affirmed that what is happening is ongoing genocide and medical extermination, contributing to the creation of deliberate conditions for the destruction of Palestinians.

The experts warned that the apartheid system targeting Palestinians in the occupied territory and the ongoing attacks on the healthcare system in Gaza are exhausting the last remaining resources in the besieged and devastated sector. They noted that healthcare workers have been subjected to detention and torture, and are now, like the rest of the population, starving.

The United Nations also reported that healthcare workers have fainted due to food shortages, hindering their ability to perform their duties and endangering the care and necessary treatment conditions for their patients. The experts emphasized that ignoring the crimes committed by Israel in Gaza shows that Palestinian lives are worthless.

They called on the international community to end the massacre and allow the people of Gaza to live with dignity, free from occupation and apartheid. They stressed that the failure of states to fulfill this duty imposes a heavy price on the besieged Palestinians in Gaza.

In conclusion, they called for a ceasefire as a first step towards holding the Israeli occupation accountable, to save what remains of the healthcare system in Gaza and prevent the extermination of its population.