UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said that the Gaza Strip’s health system is on the verge of collapse. The statement of the head of an international organization was quoted RIA News.
According to him, morgues in the Gaza Strip are currently overcrowded. Moreover, after the escalation of the Palestinian-Israeli conflict in this region, 11 healthcare workers lost their lives. As the UN Secretary General said, they were performing their official duties at the time of the murder.
“The healthcare system is on the verge of collapse. <…> Guterres emphasized that there have been 34 attacks on medical facilities in the last few days.
He added that hospitals in the southern Gaza Strip were also overcrowded. For this reason, they can no longer accept patients whose numbers may increase due to evacuation from northern regions.
As the head of an international organization stated, the movement of one million Palestinians to the south of the Gaza Strip is extremely dangerous. Guterres explained that in some cases it would be impossible in principle to do so.
13 October Representative of the UN Secretary-General Stephane Dujarric statedHe said the Israeli government had demanded the evacuation of 1.1 million Palestinians from the northern Gaza Strip within 24 hours. As the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) prepares to launch a ground operation, the country’s authorities have proposed withdrawing people to the south of the region.
Previously in Israel stated About large-scale attacks on targets of the Palestinian Hamas movement in the Gaza Strip.