The World Health Organization (WHO) on Thursday condemned the lack of security guarantees for the delivery of humanitarian aid to the Gaza Strip, saying it was almost impossible to deliver medical supplies to hospitals.
The WHO said health care needs in the Palestinian enclave were increasing and its capacity to meet them was shrinking.
The U.N. health agency has delivered 54 tons of humanitarian aid to the area in the past two weeks, but said it does not even help meet the scale of the need.
“WHO will do everything possible to ensure that all residents of the Gaza Strip have access to vital health care and humanitarian services,” WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said at a press conference. “It’s almost impossible in the current situation.”
Michael Ryan, the WHO’s director of emergencies, said that the basic security of personnel working in the Gaza Strip cannot be guaranteed at this time, which he called unfair.
He said that it has never been more difficult for the organization to establish the ground rules for the essential security guarantees of personnel.
“It is the responsibility of all parties to the conflict to ensure that these hospitals are equipped,” Ryan said. – Occupying officers have a special responsibility to ensure that such facilities are not only protected, but also serviced and provided for the appropriate needs of the population they serve. Currently, the deconfliction system is not working effectively. There is no humanitarian access.”
Getting medical supplies to where they are needed “wasn’t facilitated, it wasn’t supported; in fact, quite the opposite.”
Israel has been heavily bombarding the Gaza Strip since October 7, when gunmen from the Islamist group Hamas stormed the border and killed 1,400 people, according to Israeli officials. people, mostly civilians, and kidnapped at least 240 people, including children.
The Hamas-run Gaza Health Ministry says more than 9,000 people have been killed in its territory since the start of the war with Israel. people, mostly women and children.
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