“We say it again: patients, medical staff, buildings and ambulances must be protected at all times. Always,” he said
“Deeply shocked” said the head of the World Health Organization, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, by the attack on ambulances in the Gaza Strip.
“We say it again: patients, medical staff, buildings and ambulances must be protected at all times. Always,” the WHO secretary-general said in a post on the X platform.
The UN humanitarian coordinator for the occupied Palestinian territories, Lynne Hastings, also expressed deep concern that the strike targeted “patients who were being evacuated for their safety”.
According to the head of the Hamas government’s press office, it targeted “an ambulance convoy that was preparing to transport wounded people from Al Shifa Hospital” to the border with Egypt.
Footage broadcast by AFP television shows civilians carrying bloodied wounded. Other injured people lie on the ground, apparently thrown by the shock wave onto cars parked on the side of the road.
Hamas’ health ministry says 16 of Gaza’s 35 hospitals have been put out of business, either because they were bombed or because they ran out of fuel for their generators. According to the WHO, the bed occupancy rate at Al Shifa Hospital is 164%.
Source :Skai
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