The World Health Organization has verified over 250 attacks on healthcare in Gaza and the West Bank raising alarm over the reports on repeated attacks on hospitals.
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The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) has called for the respect and protection of medical facilities, patients and healthcare workers in Gaza.
On October 24, a statement by United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres caused a sharp reaction by Israel. He had condemned in the strongest terms the massacre committed by Hamas on October 7, but also reminded the world that it did not take place in a vacuum. He explained that one cannot dissociate 56 years of occupation from our engagement with the tragedy that unfolded on that day. Israeli officials demanded Guterres’s resignation, claiming that he supported Hamas and justified the massacre it carried out. The Israeli media also jumped on the bandwagon, asserting among other things that the UN chief had demonstrated a stunning degree of “moral bankruptcy”. The Israeli position has been that the definition of anti-Semitism be expanded to include criticism of the Israeli state and questioning the moral basis of Zionism.
The Palestinian Ambassador to Nigeria, Abdallah Abu Shawesh, on Wednesday, described as a lie, the claim by the Israeli government that it was trying to free the Palestinians from Hamas.
German Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock on Wednesday confirmed the departure of more than 200 Germans and their family members from the Gaza Strip.
Israeli ground troops are “currently in the depths” of Gaza City and are exerting “great pressure” on the ruling Palestinian Islamist Hamas movement there, Israeli army spokesman Daniel Hagari said on Tuesday evening.
The Peoples Redemption Party (PRP) has called for the adoption of the recommendations of the Oslo Accord in order to end the carnage in Gaza.
UN Secretary-General, Antonio Guterres, on Monday joined the UN family in mourning 89 staff from its agency that assisted Palestine refugees (UNRWA), who were killed in Gaza.
The heads of several UN organizations and humanitarian groups have issued a joint call for an “immediate humanitarian ceasefire” between Israel and Hamas.
UN Secretary-General António Guterres has described a strike on an ambulance convoy outside a hospital in the Gaza Strip as horrific, reiterating his appeal for a humanitarian ceasefire.