Israeli strikes on Gazan hospitals without reason are condemned by the UN

The UN Human Rights Office has released a new study that says Israel’s attacks on hospitals in Gaza have been terrible for the area’s health care system. On Tuesday, Jeremy Laurence, a spokesman for the Office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR), said that the government had attacked civilians who were hiding in hospitals with heavy bombs.

Lawrence also said that the UN office had confirmed that people inside hospitals, including healthcare workers, were being targeted with excellent accuracy. He declared that intentionally attacking facilities that treat the sick and injured is a war crime.
“The conflict itself also seriously affected civilians.” “Women, especially pregnant women, have been through a lot,” he said.

He also said, “Our office got reports that babies had died because their mothers couldn’t get to postnatal checkups or medical facilities to give birth.”
“It is a war crime to attack hospitals and other places where sick and hurt people are treated on purpose, as long as they are not military targets,” he said.

It is a war crime to attack people on purpose, either as a group or as an individual who is not directly involved in hostile activities. “And attacking in ways that are unfair on purpose is also a war crime,” he said.

Laurence said that the Israeli government’s practice of killing people in Gaza hospitals has almost destroyed the health care system.

Before he spoke, Volker Turk, the head of the UN’s human rights office, said that Gaza’s hospitals have turned into death traps. He called for impartial and trustworthy reviews of events that occurred in Gazan hospitals.

The Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics says that since 2023, when Israel started its campaign of genocide in the besieged Palestinian region of Gaza, the number of people living there has dropped by 6%.

The bureau’s report, which came out on Tuesday, says that the Israeli attack has killed 45,541 Palestinians and left 11,000 missing or thought to be under the rubble. The story also said that at least 100,000 people have had to leave their homes. At least 90% of children ages 6 to 23 months and pregnant women in Gaza don’t get enough food, according to the report.

The report also says that Israeli troops “target specific groups of the population, such as children and youth,” which causes a big “distortion… of the population.” The birth rate will drop by a lot, according to the government, and the population will become less evenly distributed by age and gender over the next few years.