The UN Agency Calls Hospitals In Gaza A Death Trap

Israeli military operations in Gaza. (Source: Israel Defense Forces)

JAKARTA - The United Nations agency said hospitals in the Gaza Strip had become a death trap, while local authorities said a lack of supply threatened an increase in non-functional hospitals in the Palestinian enclave.

The United Nations Agency for Assistance and Work for Palestinian Refugees (UNRWA) said on Wednesday, "hospitals in Gaza have become a death trap."

In an upload on X, it was explained that families in "Gaza are divided, children are cold dead, starving for life", quoted from WAFA January 8, again calling for an immediate ceasefire in the Gaza Strip.

UNRWA's statement comes after ongoing bombings and direct targeting hospitals, when three public hospitals in the northern Gaza Strip, Kamal Adwan, Beit Hanoun and Indonesian hospitals have stopped operating due to rising occupational aggression.

The Palestinian Ministry of Health said that currently only 14 of the 36 hospitals in the gaza are operating partially, as well as experiencing severe supply shortages.

The health ministry announced on Wednesday that fuel stocks had run out at health facilities, warning within hours that hospital generators would stop working fully, urging international organizations to take immediate action, quoted from The New Arab.

The ministry added the lack of fuel "directly endangers" the lives of patients, particularly at Al-Aqsa Hospital, Gaza European Hospital and Nasser Medical Complex.

Separately, medical sources in Gaza said the death toll from Palestinians in Gaza since the latest conflict broke out on October 7, 2023, had reached 45,936 people, while injuries reached 109,274, the majority of women and children.