WHO Calls Israel’s Deadly Strike on Gaza’s Al-Maghazi Refugee Camp “Unacceptable”

When World Health Organization personnel visited a Gaza hospital on Monday, they saw dying children and heard heartbreaking accounts of whole families being wiped out in attacks on a camp for refugees.

According to UN health agency president Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, “WHO’s team heard harrowing accounts shared by health workers and victims of the suffering caused by the explosions” on X, previously Twitter.

“One youngster had lost every member of their family in the camp strike. The same thing happened to a hospital nurse,” he claimed.

According to the health ministry in Gaza, which is ruled by Hamas, Israeli attacks on three homes in the Al-Maghazi refugee camp late on Sunday night resulted in at least 70 fatalities.

The toll could not be independently verified by AFP.

The Israeli military said that it was “committed to international law, including taking feasible steps to minimize harm to civilians” and that it was “reviewing the incident.”

At the Al-Aqsa hospital in Deir al-Balah, central Gaza, rows of victims’ corpses covered in white bags were arranged on the ground in front of a large funeral.

Tedros said that the Al-Aqsa hospital personnel had recorded around one hundred casualties as a result of the explosions.

He said, “The hospital is receiving far more patients than both its staff and bed capacity can handle.”

He insisted that “this latest strike on a Gazan community shows just why we need a #CeasefireNOW” and that “many will not survive the wait.”

According to an AFP count based on Israeli numbers, the conflict began on October 7 when Hamas militants launched an unprecedented offensive on Israel, killing over 1,140 people, mostly civilians, and seizing 250 hostages.

According to Gaza’s health ministry, Israel’s retaliatory military assault has killed at least 20,670 individuals, the majority of whom were women and children.

“UNREASONABLE SITUATION”
WHO Emergency Medical Teams coordinator Sean Casey, who visited the Al-Aqsa hospital on Monday, related how medical professionals were able to relieve the suffering of Ahmed, a nine-year-old kid who was seriously wounded.

In a video taken inside Al-Aqsa, Casey seemed to fight back tears as she said that he “was being treated basically with sedation to ease his suffering as he dies.”

“The building next to him blew up while he was crossing the street in front of the shelter where his family is staying,” the man said.

“He was struck by shrapnel and debris, exposing his brain tissue.

“Nobody can take any action to help him. There isn’t the ability to handle complicated neurological patients or complex trauma situations, like so many instances here,” he stated.

Only nine of Gaza’s initial 36 facilities are still operational, even in part, according to a warning from WHO.

“Thousands and thousands of people, including children, are being blown up and killed while they are sleeping in their beds or crossing the street,” Casey said. “As an international community, we should not accept that.”

He insisted for a truce, saying, “This is an unacceptable situation.” “This needs to end.”