UN expert: Gaza’s healthcare system wiped out

Israel’s war in the Gaza Strip has “wiped out” the health care system in the Palestinian area, says the UN Special Rapporteur on the right to health.

Tlaleng Mofokeng, who is an independent expert appointed by the UN Human Rights Council but does not speak on behalf of the UN, also accuses Israel of treating human rights as an “a la carte menu”.

– This has been a war against the right to healthcare since the beginning, says Mofokeng.

Since the war broke out more than six months ago, fighting has raged in and around hospitals in Gaza. Israel has defended its offensives against hospitals by claiming that leaders of terror-branded Hamas used the complexes as hideouts and that hostages were held there.

Israel has recently been increasingly criticized for the war in Gaza and the humanitarian situation in the area.