UN Human Rights Expert Says Israel Performs Medical Genocide In Gaza Strip

The United Nations (UN) human rights expert on Wednesday said the destruction of a healthcare system in the Gaza Strip, a Palestinian intentionally by Israel was a "medical genocide", accusing Israel of deliberately attacking and luring health workers, paramedics and hospitals from hunger to eliminate medical services in the protected Palestinian enclave.

"As a human and UN expert, we cannot remain silent in the face of war crimes committed before our eyes in Gaza," said UN Special Reporting on Health Rights Tlaleng Mofokeng, and Special Reporting for the Situation of Human Rights in the Palestinian region

"In addition to witnessing the ongoing genocide, we are also witnessing medical genocide, a factor that contributes to the creation of a deliberate condition to destroy Palestinians in Gaza, which is an act of genocide," they added.

Experts warn that the apartheid regime targeting Palestinians in occupied areas and continuing attacks on Gaza's health care system has drained the latest remaining resources in Gaza.

They said, "Health and care workers have repeatedly been targeted, detained, and tortured, and now, like other residents, they are starving."

Previously, the United Nations reported that health workers and treatments had fainted due to food shortages and hunger, a violation not only of their right to health, but also of their ability to carry out tasks and endanger the conditions of care and treatment needed for their patients.

They added, "Avoiding the crimes that Israel continues to commit in Gaza sends a clear message to the world: the Gazan people are meaningless, and their lives are worthless. Palestinians in Gaza are denied their right to dignity, existence, and food."

"The international community has a moral obligation to end the massacre and allow Gazans to live on their lands without fear of prolonged invasion, killing, hunger, or occupational and apartheid realities," they continued.

"The countries have failed in this task, and the people trapped in Gaza's hell pay the highest price for this failure and indifference," he said.

The two UN experts again called for an immediate ceasefire, asking Israel to hold Israel accountable and rescue the remnants of Gaza's health care system, in order to prevent the destruction of its population.