At least 350 health workers have died in Gaza since the start of the war: UN Special Rapporteur

“We know that 520 health professionals have been injured and we know that 350 health professionals, including allied health workers, have died,” Mofokeng said at a news conference on Monday.

Several teenagers used to assist medical workers in Gaza hospitals to help them deal with the growing number of injuries and deaths, but the teenagers have not been included among the victims because they were not officially registered as medical workers, the special rapporteur said. the ONU. aggregate.

“The health system in Gaza has been completely destroyed and the right to health has been decimated at all levels. The conditions are incompatible with bringing each person to the highest possible state of physical and mental health. “The attacks, the harassment, the murders of many of my own colleagues, health workers, the destruction of health facilities and the destruction of humanitarian aid organizations continue to catapult to proportions that have not yet been fully quantified, if possible.” said Mofokeng.

Israel has waged a brutal offensive in the Gaza Strip since a cross-border attack by the Palestinian group Hamas on October 1. 7 last year, which Tel Aviv says killed nearly 1,200 people.

Since then, nearly 34,200 Palestinians have been killed, mostly women and children, and another 77,150 have been injured amid massive destruction and severe shortages of essential items.

The Israeli war has pushed 85% of Gaza’s population into internal displacement amid severe shortages of food, clean water and medicine, while 60% of the enclave’s infrastructure has been damaged or destroyed, according to the UN.

Israel is accused of genocide before the International Court of Justice. An interim ruling in January ordered Tel Aviv to stop genocidal acts and take steps to ensure humanitarian assistance is provided to civilians in Gaza.