The Director-General of the World Health Organization (WHO), Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, has censured this Thursday the attack carried out by the Israel Army against a hospital located in the south of the Gaza Strip, an offensive that has caused at least six deaths and more than 25 people injured, in addition to major damage to the Naser Medical Complex.
"Another deadly attack on healthcare in Gaza," Tedros lamented in a message on social media, in which he highlighted that among those killed by the bombing of the hospital's surgery department there is "a healthcare worker, patients and their accompanying persons". "As reported, the department has suffered considerable damage," he stressed.
The WHO official likewise indicated that there were malfunctions in other areas of the hospital, "including operating rooms, the recovery unit and the intensive care unit," and specified that, since the start of the Israeli offensive on Gaza following the attacks of October 7, 2023, 1,056 attacks on healthcare in Gaza have been recorded, with more than a thousand dead and 1,725 injured.
"The health needs in Gaza continue to be immense and will only grow with the arrival of winter. Rain, flooding and the cold will worsen living conditions and increase the risk of disease, in a context in which water and sanitation systems are severely deteriorated," he said.
"Our request remains the same: allow unhindered humanitarian access and facilitate the entry of more medical and humanitarian supplies into Gaza," he said, before stressing that "Gaza's health facilities are a lifeline for its population."
Along these lines, he insisted that these infrastructures "must be protected" and that "they must never be militarized or attacked." "The best medicine is peace," the WHO head concluded after the attack, which, according to Israel, had targeted alleged members of the Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas), a point the group has denied.