© Reuters. A child looks at a house hit by a rocket fired from the Gaza Strip, in central Israel, amid the ongoing conflict between Israel and the Palestinian Islamist group Hamas, in central Israel, November 3, 2023. REUTERS/Ronen Zvulun/File Photo
By Michelle Nichols
UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) – A child is killed on average every 10 minutes in the Gaza Strip, World Health Organization Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus told the United Nations Security Council on Friday, warning: “Nowhere and no one is safe.”
He said that half of Gaza’s 36 hospitals and two-thirds of its primary healthcare centers were not functioning and those that were operating were way beyond their capacities, describing the healthcare system as being “on its knees.”
“Hospital corridors crammed with the injured, the sick, the dying. Morgues overflowing. Surgery without anesthesia. Tens of thousands of displaced people sheltering at hospitals,” Tedros told the 15-member council.
Israel has vowed to wipe out Hamas, which rules the Gaza Strip, after an Oct. 7 attack in southern Israel in which it says the militants killed around 1,200 people and took more than 240 hostages. Israel has struck…
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