from PressTV
The Israeli regime has placed Gaza’s healthcare system on the verge of collapse, the United Nations human rights office says.
Practically all the hospitals in northern Gaza have become dysfunctional. Israel is hard at work cleansing the area of the indigenous Palestinian population.
The UN rights office said in a 28-page report issued on Tuesday that the Israeli military has carried out “at least 136 strikes on 27 hospitals and 12 other medical facilities” since October 7, 2023.
It says the strikes on health facilities have left “significant casualties among doctors, nurses, medics and other civilians and causing significant damage to, if not the complete destruction of, civilian infrastructure.”
“Israel’s pattern of deadly attacks on and near hospitals in Gaza, and associated combat, pushed the healthcare system to the brink of total collapse, with catastrophic effect on Palestinians’ access to health and medical care.”
In attacking health facilities across Gaza, the regime has employed the pretext of the buildings being used by the Palestinian resistance fighters. But the victims are invariably civilians...
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