The World Health Organization (WHO) has reported that medical personnel have been detained at Israeli military checkpoints. The UN General Assembly will vote on Tuesday on a non-binding resolution calling for a humanitarian ceasefire in Gaza.
The Gaza Strip’s Health Ministry on Tuesday denounced that members of the Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) attacked the armed forces. Kamal Aduan Hospitalin the north of the Palestinian enclave, and has called on the United Nations to take measures to protect those inside.
According to a ministry spokesman, Israeli forces had been besieging and attacking the medical center for “several days” and had now begun to concentrate the men, including hospital staff, in the courtyard. He fears that arrests or even executions could take place, according to a statement from the department.
The IDF has justified these types of operations by the need to eliminate the threat posed by the Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas), which they accuse of hiding in civilian facilities theoretically protected by international law.
The World Health Organization (WHO) for its part denounced this today medical staff who took part in a recent mission to evacuate seriously ill patients and evaluate the healthcare system in Gaza locked up at Israeli military checkpoints and serious beatings were recorded.
One of them was released shortly afterwards, but the other was not, forcing the mission to continue for the sake of the 19 seriously ill patients they transferred to southern Gaza. The health worker who was arrested and released hours later was forced to walk miles into southern Gaza on foot with his hands handcuffed behind his back, and once with his colleagues he said he was humiliated, threatened and beaten.
UN General Assembly on the situation in Gaza
The UN General Assembly will hold a special extraordinary session this Tuesday to address the situation in the Gaza Strip, days after the United States vetoed a resolution submitted to the United Nations Security Council calling for to a humanitarian ceasefire.
The full General Assembly last met on October 27, when it approved a non-binding resolution tabled by Arab countries calling for an “immediate, lasting and lasting humanitarian ceasefire” in the Gaza Strip, where bombardments by Israelis have October 7, nearly 18,000 people have been killed. .
The resolution received 120 votes in favor, 45 abstentions and 14 votes against, including Israel, the United States, Guatemala, Hungary, Croatia, Austria, Papua New Guinea, Paraguay, the Marshall Islands, Tonga, the Czech Republic, Micronesia, Fiji and Nauru. Although the result of the vote is not bindingis considered to have important political weight because it shows the position of the international community as a whole.
Source: EITB
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