The World Health Organization (WHO) called on Tuesday for allowing fuel into the Gaza Strip to keep its remaining hospitals running, warning that the besieged enclave’s health system is on the “brink of collapse.”
“Fuel has not entered Gaza for more than 100 days, and attempts to bring in stocks from evacuation zones have been rejected,” said Rick Peeperkorn, the organization’s representative in the occupied Palestinian territories. He noted that this, coupled with the severe shortage of supplies, is pushing the health system to the brink of collapse.
Peeperkorn added that only 17 of Gaza’s 36 hospitals are currently operating at minimal or partial capacity, with a total of approximately 1,500 beds, about 45 percent fewer than before the war began.
He noted that all hospitals and primary health care centers in northern Gaza are out of service.
UNICEF Spokesman James Elder can barely hold back his tears: “What is there to say in the face of such pain here in Gaza and such impunity everywhere else?”, speaking from the ruins of Nasser hospital.
Nasser Medical Complex is Gaza’s last functioning hospital in the south and it’s under siege. The Canadian medical director of @Glia_Intl reports from inside the hospital:
