The World Health Organization confirmed on Thursday that health facilities and services operating in the Gaza Strip are scarce.
Rick Peppercorn, the organization’s representative in the West Bank and Gaza, noted that “18 out of 36 hospitals” in the Strip are “partially functioning,” and about a third of the primary health care centers there are also “partially functioning.”
In terms of patients, Peppercorn announced that only 480 patients have been evacuated from Gaza through the Rafah crossing since May 2024, while between 12,000 and 14,000 patients need to be evacuated from Gaza.
A few days ago, the director general of the Ministry of Health in the Gaza Strip, Munir al-Barsh, confirmed that “the basic necessities for the operation of hospitals, such as fuel and oxygen stations, have not reached the northern Gaza Strip.”
Al-Barsh stressed the urgent need for field hospitals, after many hospitals in northern Gaza stopped working.
