World Health Organization director-general Dr Tedros Ghebreyesus yesterday renewed calls to protect all hospitals in the Gaza Strip.
He described the destruction inflicted on hospitals in Gaza as heartbreaking, Palestine News and Info Agency reported.
Ghebreyesus in a post on X said “we conducted, with our partners, an assessment of the situation in Al-Shifa Hospital and the Indonesian Hospital in northern Gaza”, stressing that the process of recovering bodies from Al-Shifa Hospital is ongoing.
He pointed out that health workers have cleaned the emergency department of Al-Shifa Hospital and removed burnt beds, but the safety of the remaining building needs a comprehensive engineering evaluation.
He also noted that the Indonesian Hospital is empty and reconstruction work is continuing in an attempt to rehabilitate it.
Ghebreyesus called for an immediate ceasefire, saying that the main medicine that people in Gaza need is peace.
According to Palestine’s Health Ministry, 12 hospitals in the Gaza Strip are partially operating - six in the north and six others in the south.
The Israeli aggression on Gaza has resulted in 33,843 fatalities and 76,575 injuries since October 2023.
- Bernama
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