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At least 350 healthcare workers killed since Oct. 7: UN

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  • Source: Agencies
  • 22 Apr 2024 21:29
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Many teenagers would volunteer in Gaza's hospitals to help medical workers deal with the increase of those injured and killed, but they have not been listed among the casualties since they weren't officially registered as medical workers.

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  • Palestinian medics carry a young wounded in the Israeli bombardment of the Gaza Strip, to the Kuwaiti Hospital in Rafah refugee camp, southern Gaza Strip, April 20, 2024 (AP Photo/Ismael Abu Dayyah)
    Palestinian medics carry a young wounded in the Israeli bombardment of the Gaza Strip, to the Kuwaiti Hospital in Rafah refugee camp, southern Gaza Strip, April 20, 2024 (AP Photo/Ismael Abu Dayyah)

The UN Special Rapporteur on the Right to Health Tlaleng Mofokeng announced on Monday that at least 350 healthcare workers have been killed and 520 others injured in Gaza since October 7. 

During a press briefing, Mofokeng said: "We know that 520 healthcare professionals have been injured, and we know that 350 healthcare professionals, including allied healthcare workers, have been killed". 

According to the UN special rapporteur, many teenagers would volunteer in Gaza's hospitals to help medical workers deal with the increase of those injured and killed, but they have not been listed among the casualties since they weren't officially registered as medical workers.

"The health system in Gaza has been completely obliterated and the right to health has been decimated at every level. The conditions are incompatible with the realization of everyone to the highest attainable state of physical and mental health", she added. 

"The attacks, the harassment, the killings of many of my own colleagues, healthcare workers, the destruction of health facilities and the destruction of humanitarian aid organizations continue to catapult to proportions yet to be fully quantified if at all possible," Mofokeng concluded.

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This comes the same day after Gaza's Civil Defense announced that 283 bodies of martyrs were recovered from the Israeli-made mass grave in Nasser Medical Complex in Khan Younis since the withdrawal of the Israeli occupation forces from the area. 

There is clear evidence of field executions carried out by the IOF at Nasser Medical Complex, it emphasized in its statement. 

Last month, Palestinian medical personnel in Gaza recounted instances of being blindfolded, detained, stripped, and subjected to repeated beatings by Israeli troops following a hospital raid, BBC reported. The Israeli occupation forces conducted a raid on the hospital in Khan Younis, a southern city in Gaza, on February 15. This hospital was one of the few still operational in the besieged region. 

As of yesterday, the toll of Palestinians killed by the Israeli genocide against Gaza to 34,097, and those injured to 76,980 since October 7, according to the Gazan health ministry. 

It is worth noting that "Israel" is deliberately targeting healthcare workers, volunteers, and aid workers which violates international law. It specifically goes against Article 15 of Additional Protocol 1 of the Geneva Convention which protects civilians and medical and humanitarian personnel who are clearly not partaking in hostilities.

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