The World Health Organization (WHO) this Saturday repeated its calls for an immediate ceasefire in the Gaza Strip after a night of intense Israeli bombing that left patients and civilians completely cut off from communications and electricity.
“In a night of intense shelling and ground incursions into Gaza, with reports of continued fighting, health workers, patients and civilians suffered a complete blackout of communications and electricity,” the WHO said in a statement, reiterating its calls for an immediate ceasefire. humanitarian ceasefire.
The World Health Organization also warns that all precautions must be taken to protect civilians and civilian infrastructure, which includes health workers, patients, medical facilities and ambulances, as well as the civilian population living in these facilities.
“Proactive measures must be taken to ensure that these people are not harmed and that safe passage is provided for the movement of desperately needed medicine, fuel, water and food into and through the Gaza Strip.”
Reports of explosions near hospitals in Indonesia and Al Shifa are “extremely alarming,” the WHO warns, reiterating the impossibility of evacuating or removing patients without putting their lives at risk.
“Hospitals across the Gaza Strip are already operating at maximum capacity due to the large number of casualties from weeks of incessant bombing and cannot accommodate a sharp increase in the number of patients while simultaneously providing shelter to thousands of civilians,” he warns. .
Health care workers who remain close to their patients face resource constraints, with no space to accommodate new patients and no medications to ease their pain.
“Every hour there are more and more wounded, but ambulances cannot reach them due to lack of communication. The morgues are overcrowded. More than half of the dead are women and children.”
The WHO, like other agencies, has been unable to contact its staff in Gaza and is trying to obtain information about the overall impact on civilians and health care.
“WHO calls for the humanity of all those who have the power to end the fighting now, in accordance with the UN resolution adopted yesterday. [sexta-feira]which calls for a humanitarian truce, as well as the immediate and unconditional release of all civilians held in captivity.”
Hours before the mass bombings began on Friday evening, the Israeli army accused Hamas of “waging war from the hospitals” of the Gaza Strip and of using its population as “human shields,” something the Islamist movement vehemently denies.
In turn, the families of Hamas hostages detained in the Gaza Strip, most of them Israelis, expressed concern and demanded an explanation from the Tel Aviv government after intense bombing by the army.
The families have requested a meeting with the defense minister and the military cabinet to demand information from Israeli authorities after they spent the “worst night ever” in “complete uncertainty” about the fate of their loved ones while the Israeli army continues its positions . invading the enclave as a prelude to a full-scale invasion, which they do not know will endanger the hostages.
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Source: CM Jornal
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