UN official: More than a thousand Israeli attacks on health facilities in Gaza Strip

Representative of the World Health Organization in the Palestinian Territories, Rick Pepperkorn, announced that more than a thousand attacks on health facilities had been recorded since the seventh of last October.

The United Nations News Center quoted Pepperkorn as saying to reporters: “There are currently no operating hospitals in the city of Rafah, located south of the Gaza Strip, in the wake of the recent Israeli attack on the city. The availability of hospital beds has decreased significantly from 3,500 beds before the start of the aggression on the Gaza Strip to  just 1,400 today. Only one bed today. 600 of those 1,400 are being provided by field hospitals “so currently from the Ministry of Health and NGO fixed hospitals, there’s only 800 hospital beds in service from the 3,500, plus 600 field hospital beds, for a population of more than 2.2 million people”.

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In turn, Muhannad Hadi, the Humanitarian Affairs Coordinator in the Occupied Palestinian Territory, said: “There is no longer a safe place in Gaza, and humanitarian workers are facing a challenge on all fronts.”

Hadi added: “People are stranded on the sides of the roads, and have been displaced several times, with very little of the materials they desperately need,” stressing that the situation is terrible for everyone, especially women, children, the elderly, and people with special needs.

Inas Abdulkareem