UN claims Gaza health system is on the verge of “universal collapse”

‘ The health system of the Lorid lies at the limits of the universal collapse due to Israel’s unrelenting attacks since the beginning of the war in October 2021″, warns its High Commissioner for Human Rights in its annual report published today (31.12.2024). In the United Nations (UN) report, it was reported that Gaza hospitals have turned into “dead traps”, while its claims that enclave hospitals facilities are used by armed Palestinian organisations are described as “definitive”. CORVERSE “The series of Israel’s killing attacks on Gaza and the region’s hospitals and their related hostilities have brought the health system to the brink of universal collapse, with devastating results on Palestinian access to health and medical care,” is quoted in the report accompanying the report. ‘To date, the public does not have sufficient information to verify these claims, which remain vague and general and which, in some cases, appears to conflict with the publicly available information’, is stated in the report. “As if the unstoppable bombings and the disastrous humanitarian situation in Gaza were not reached, the only refuge where Palestinians should feel safe has turned into a deadly trap,” reports High Commissioner Falker Turk. “The protection of hospitals during the war is of primary importance and should be respected by all sides and always”. CORVERSE Yesterday, the International Committee of the Red Cross denounced that the health system in the northern Gaza sector, where Israeli war operations have focused since 6 October, is wiped out by the war and that hospitals are completely out of operation. Israel launched on Friday and Saturday an attack on the major Kamal Antoine hospital, which, according to the World Health Organization, is now empty and out of order. Israel announced after the end of the attack that 20 Palestinian armed men were killed and 240 “terrorists” were arrested during this operation, one of the “largest operations” conducted in the Palestinian enclave.