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WHO: Mass grave found at Al-Shifa hospital
November 19, 2023, 2:57 a.m
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The World Health Organization says it has found a mass grave outside Al-Shifa Hospital in Gaza City. A rescue operation is intended to bring the remaining patients out of the terrible conditions on site.
The World Health Organization (WHO) is working hard on a plan to rescue the remaining patients from Al-Shifa Hospital in the Gaza Strip. This is what WHO boss Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus wrote in the short message portal X. Employees visited the hospital on Saturday and found a desolate situation. There is no water, no electricity or food there and hardly any medical needs left. The team found a mass grave at the entrance to the hospital and was informed that more than 80 people were buried there, the World Health Organization wrote in a statement.
There were traces of shots and gunfire. The hospital’s corridors and grounds are full of medical and other waste, which increases the risk of infection. The lack of clean water, fuel, medicine, food and other essential supplies over the past six weeks has resulted in the hospital essentially no longer functioning as a medical facility.
“Given this deplorable situation and the condition of many patients, including babies, staff requested assistance in evacuating terminally ill patients who can no longer be cared for there,” the WHO chief wrote. They are working on it with partners and are demanding support for this plan.
Tedros did not mention Israel, whose military took over the hospital, or the extremist Palestinian organization Hamas, which rules the Gaza Strip, by name. “The current situation is intolerable and unjustifiable,” he wrote. “Cease fire. NOW,” he added.