World Health Official: Humanitarian Catastrophe in the Gaza Strip is getting worse as a result of the continued Israeli aggression

The coordinator of the emergency medical teams at the World Health Organization, Sean Casey, warned of an increasingly dangerous deterioration of the health and humanitarian situation in the stricken Gaza Strip, as a result of the ongoing Israeli aggression for the 104th day.

Casey said in statements today at the United Nations headquarters in New York: “The humanitarian catastrophe in the Gaza Strip that is unfolding every day is getting worse, in addition to the collapse of the health system day after day with the closure of hospitals and the continued influx of victims”.

Casey’s statements came after his recent return from Gaza, where he stayed for more than five weeks, working from Rafah in the south, in addition to his visits to the northern Gaza Strip many times.

Casey explained that during the five weeks he spent in Gaza, he  daily saw  people with severe burns and open double fractures in hospitals waiting hours or days to receive treatment, as they often asked him for food or water.

Casey pointed out that he visited 6 hospitals, including Al-Shifa Hospital in northern Gaza, which he reached only three times because after that, 12 days passed during which the organization was unable to deliver food, medicine, fuel, and any other supplies to the largest and most important health facility in the Gaza Strip, which is a hospital. It includes more than 700 beds.

The global health official confirmed that he personally saw a rapid deterioration in the health system in the Gaza Strip, and that hospitals are facing a huge number of patients, while operating with a minimum staff. In addition to the disappearance of the level of humanitarian aid entry, especially to the north, where patients are waiting to die in a hospital that lacks fuel, electricity and water.

Three United Nations agencies called three days ago for the urgent need to deliver humanitarian aid to the Gaza Strip, stressing that the delivery of food and supplies to the besieged people of the Gaza Strip, who face an increasing risk of famine, also depends on opening new routes for the entry of aid.

Souha Suleiman