2023-11-13 23:23:00
The World Health Organization has once again complained about “appalling conditions” in the largest hospital in the Gaza Strip. There are more than 2,000 people in the Shifa clinic, including probably more than 600 patients and around 1,500 displaced people, the WHO wrote on Monday on the X platform (formerly Twitter), citing the Palestinian Ministry of Health. Accordingly, patients could no longer receive dialysis, among other things. Premature babies were also transferred to operating rooms without incubators.
The WHO had previously denounced the situation in the clinic complex with around 700 beds. Because of the fighting in the immediate vicinity and a lack of fuel, medical care is hardly possible anymore. Dozens of children are in critical condition and could die at any moment.
Meanwhile, a senior doctor denied to the British broadcaster BBC that there were Hamas fighters in the clinic. Israel’s allegations are “a big lie,” said chief surgeon Marwan Abu Saada. “We have medical staff, we have patients and displaced people. Nothing else.” The Israeli military had previously said that Hamas – which uses an extensive tunnel under the coastal area for its own purposes – had a command center under the clinic and was also misusing other medical facilities in the Gaza Strip for military purposes.
White House national security adviser Jake Sullivan said on Sunday that the US had urged Israel to avoid fighting near hospitals in the Gaza Strip. “The United States does not want battles in hospitals where innocent people and patients receiving medical care are caught in the crossfire,” Sullivan told CBS on Sunday. (DPA)
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