Gaza health system ‘completely obliterated’: UN expert

AFP | Geneva

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Israel’s war in Gaza has from the start been a “war on the right to health” and has “obliterated” the Palestinian territory’s health system, a UN expert said yesterday.

Tlaleng Mofokeng, the United Nations special rapporteur on the right to health, accused Israel of treating human rights as an “a la carte menu”. Amid the unrelenting Israeli bombardment of Gaza, healthcare providers had for months been working under dire conditions with very limited access to medical supplies, she said.

The World Health Organization said earlier this month that Al-Shifa, Gaza’s largest hospital, had been reduced to ashes by an Israeli siege, leaving an “empty shell” with many bodies. “The destruction of healthcare facilities continues to catapult to proportions yet to be fully quantified,” said Mofokeng.