The Director-General of the World Health Organization,
Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus has called for an end to attacks on hospitals in
Gaza after Israel struck one and raided another in the past few days.
Tedros made this call in a post on his official X handle on
Monday.
“Hospitals in Gaza have once again become battlegrounds and
the health system is under severe threat.
“We repeat: stop attacks on hospitals. People in Gaza need
access to health care. Humanitarians need access to provide health aid.
Ceasefire!” He added.
The Israeli military had said that Hamas militants were the
targets of a strike on Gaza City’s Al Wafa hospital on Sunday, which the
Palestinian civil defence said killed seven people.
According to health authorities in the enclave and Israel’s
military, Israeli forces also detained more than 240 Palestinians including
dozens of medical staff from Kamal Adwan hospital on Friday, among them was its
director, Hussam Abu Safiya.
The Israeli military said the hospital was being used as a
command centre for Hamas military operations and those arrested were suspected
militants.
It further stated that Abu Safiya was taken for questioning
as he was suspected of being a Hamas operative.
Tedros, who last week was caught up in an Israeli strike
against Yemen’s main airport that he said might have cost him his life, called
for Abu Safiya’s immediate release and said the Al-Ahli hospital had also faced
attacks.
The WHO chief said the UN health agency and partners had
delivered basic medical supplies, food and water to Gaza’s Indonesian hospital
and transferred 10 critical patients to Al Shifa hospital.
“We urge Israel to ensure their health care needs and rights
are upheld,” Tedros said.
According to Gaza’s health ministry, no fewer than 45,514
Palestinians have been killed and 108,189 wounded in Israel’s military
offensive in Gaza since the Hamas attacks of October 7, 2023.
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