World Health Organization (WHO) Director General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus shared on the X social media platform about the situation in Gaza, which is under intense attacks by Israel.
“I cannot find words to express our concern about the situation we are witnessing, immediate ceasefire.” Ghebreyesus underlined that the news about the ongoing conflict and heavy bombardment in Gaza is terrifying.
Ghebreyesus said:
“Yesterday, our team visited Nasser Hospital in the south of Gaza. The hospital is treating 1,000 patients, three times more than its capacity. Countless people filling every corner of the facility are looking for shelter. Patients are being treated on the ground in pain, screaming. These conditions, the provision of health services “It is unimaginably inadequate.”
LATEST SITUATION IN ISRAEL’S OCCUPATION OF GAZA
While Hamas’s armed wing, Izz ad-Din al-Qassam Brigades, launched a comprehensive attack on the morning of October 7, on the grounds that Israel was “responding to its continuous violations against the Palestinians and their sacred values, especially the Al-Aqsa Mosque”, the Israeli army launched intense air bombardment on the Gaza Strip. started it.
It was announced that 1,200 Israelis, including more than 310 soldiers, died and 5,132 people were injured in the attacks in Israel on October 7. According to the Israeli army, 72 Israeli soldiers were killed in the clashes in Gaza and 6 on the Lebanese border.
According to the government in Gaza, the number of Palestinians killed in Israeli attacks in the Gaza Strip since October 7 has risen to 15,207, including more than 6,150 children and more than 4,000 women.
Since October 7, 254 Palestinians have lost their lives in attacks by Israeli forces and Jewish settlers in the occupied West Bank and Jerusalem.
The Israeli army hit the campuses or main buildings of dozens of hospitals in Gaza, where tens of thousands of injured and civilians took shelter, to force their evacuation. They raided some hospitals during the occupation. Hundreds of people died and were injured in the attacks.
POWER EXCHANGE AGREEMENT BETWEEN HAMAS AND ISRAEL
The agreement regarding a 4-day “humanitarian pause” in the clashes between Israel and Hamas came into force on Friday, November 24, at 07:00 (08:00 Turkish lira) and was later extended for another 3 days.
Within the framework of the prisoner exchange agreement reached between Israel and Hamas, 81 Israeli prisoners were released from the Gaza Strip and 240 Palestinian prisoners were released from Israeli prisons.
The Israeli army resumed its attacks on the Gaza Strip immediately after the “humanitarian break” ended on December 1.
(AA)
