The UN's World Health Organization (WHO) said on Friday that the relentless war in Gaza has left hospitals, their staff and the people sheltering in them unrelieved, with no access to medical care in the enclave since the fighting began. Data revealed that there were over 350 attacks.
WHO spokesperson Tarik Jasarevic said a total of 645 people had been killed and a further 818 injured in these incidents since October 7. His comments came amid allegations that a nurse was shot and seriously injured in a hospital operating room. Khan Younis.
“These attacks affected 27 out of 36 hospitals, 98 medical facilities and affected 90 ambulances, of which 50 was damaged,” he said.
kicked out
In an update on the crisis, the U.N. aid coordination office OCHA reported further “heavy fighting” including shelling and heavy gunfire broke out in Khan Yunis, south of Gaza, on Thursday.
The UN Aid Coordination Office quoted UN partner Palestine Red Crescent Society (PCRS) as saying that Nasser and al-Amal hospitals have reportedly been under siege for 17 days, but that “thousands of “The violence continues to have a particularly severe impact,” he said. People” from cities further south to Rafah.
hospital focus
OCHA's update also cited Gaza health authorities' reports of continued “suspected sniper firing near Nasser Hospital” and claims that Israeli forces had blocked ambulance movement and access to Nasser Hospital. Ta.
OCHA's latest information said, “On February 8, a nurse was shot and seriously injured in the operating room of Nasser Hospital, and two Palestinians were reportedly shot dead near the hospital.'' “On February 7, a Palestinian woman was reportedly shot dead while going to Nasser Hospital to fetch water.''
Escalation in the West Bank
The latest WHO data shows that Gaza was attacked on October 7 after a widely condemned Hamas-led terrorist attack that massacred 1,200 Israelis and foreigners and took more than 250 hostages. It also highlighted the increase in attacks on health care in the occupied West Bank since the outbreak of the Israeli war.
Jasarevic said there were approximately 364 attacks (on medical care) in the West Bank, resulting in 10 deaths and 62 injuries. He noted that 44 health facilities were affected, including 15 mobile clinics and 24 ambulances.
The latest death toll from the fighting in Gaza is at least 27,840 killed and more than 67,300 injured, according to local health authorities. According to the Israeli military, as of February 8, 225 Israeli soldiers have been killed and 1,314 wounded in the Gaza Strip since ground operations began.
fear of new hunger
UN humanitarian workers continued to stress that the risk of famine in Gaza, especially in northern Gaza, was increasing “day by day”.
OCHA said hundreds of thousands of people on the ground have “largely had their support cut off”, with the largest number reportedly grinding livestock feed to make flour. This is despite the fact that it is in this region that there is great need.
Since the beginning of the crisis, the United Nations World Food Program (WFP) announced that it has delivered 1,940 trucks, or 19% of all relief trucks, carrying more than 32,413 tonnes of lifesaving food.
The last time UNRWA, the United Nations agency for Palestinian refugees, was able to carry out food distribution in northern Wadi Gaza was on January 23, according to OCHA's latest information.
