ガザ難民キャンプ空爆　「悲惨な」状況確認、ＷＨＯ

【ジュネーブＡＦＰ＝時事】世界保健機関（ＷＨＯ）の職員が２５日、パレスチナ自治区ガザ地区の病院を訪問し、イスラエルによる空爆の被害者らが置かれた「悲惨な」状況について確認した。（写真は、パレスチナ自治区ガザ地区マガジ難民キャンプで、イスラエル軍の爆撃で破壊された建物）
　ＷＨＯのテドロス・アダノム・ゲブレイェスス事務局長はＸ（旧ツイッター）に「ＷＨＯのチームは、医療従事者や被害者から、爆発による被害に関する悲惨な証言を得た」と投稿。「ある子どもはキャンプへの攻撃で家族全員を失った。同病院の看護師も同じ目に遭った」とつづった。
　ガザ地区を実効支配するイスラム組織ハマスの保健当局は、２４日夜にマガジ難民キャンプ内の建物３棟がイスラエルによる空爆を受け、少なくとも７０人が死亡したと発表した。ＡＦＰは死者数について独自に確認できていない。
　ガザ中部デイルアルバラのアクサ殉教者病院の敷地には、白い袋に入れられた犠牲者の遺体が多数並べられていた。病院職員は、キャンプへの攻撃の負傷者約１００人が病院に搬送されてきたと報告している。
　テドロス氏は、病院の処理能力を超えており「治療が間に合わず、多くが命を落とすだろう」とし、「２４日のガザへの爆撃は、直ちに停戦すべき理由をはっきりと示している」と語気を強めた。
　ＷＨＯによると、ガザ地区の病院３６施設のうち現在でも稼働しているのは、限定稼働の施設を含む９施設のみとなっている。【翻訳編集ＡＦＰＢＢＮｅｗｓ】
〔ＡＦＰ＝時事〕（2023/12/26-17:17）

World Health Organization staff visited Monday a Gaza hospital receiving casualties from deadly strikes on a refugee camp, hearing distressing stories of entire families killed and seeing dying children.
WHO's team heard harrowing accounts shared by health workers and victims of the suffering caused by the explosions, the UN health agency chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said on X, formerly Twitter.
One child had lost their whole family in the strike on the camp. A nurse at the hospital suffered the same loss, he said.
The health ministry in Hamas-run Gaza says that at least 70 people were killed in Israeli strikes late Sunday on three houses in the Al-Maghazi refugee camp.
AFP was unable to independently verify the toll.
The Israeli military said it was reviewing the incident and committed to international law including taking feasible steps to minimise harm to civilians.
Rows of victims' bodies, shrouded in white bags, lined the ground at Al-Aqsa hospital in Deir al-Balah, central Gaza, ahead of a mass funeral.
The Al-Aqsa hospital staff had reported receiving around 100 casualties from the blasts, Tedros said.
The hospital is taking in far more patients than its bed capacity and staff can handle, he said.
Many will not survive the wait, he warned, insisting this latest strike on a Gazan community shows just why we need a #CeasefireNOW.
The war broke out when Hamas fighters launched an unprecedented attack on Israel on October 7 and killed about 1,140 people, mainly civilians, and seized 250 hostages, according to an AFP tally based on Israeli figures.
Israel has responded with a relentless military campaign that has killed at least 20,670 people, mostly women and children, according to Gaza's health ministry.
- 'Unacceptable situation' -
Sean Casey, a WHO Emergency Medical Teams coordinator who was on Monday's mission to Al-Aqsa hospital, described doctors providing pain relief to a critically injured nine-year-old boy named Ahmed.
He was being treated basically with sedation to ease his suffering as he dies, Casey said in a video shot inside Al-Aqsa, seeming to fight back tears.
He was crossing the street in front of the shelter where his family is staying and the building beside him blew up, he said.
He was hit by shrapnel, by rubble, his brain matter was exposed.
There's nothing anybody can do for him. Like so many cases here, there isn't capacity to manage complex neurological cases, complex trauma cases, he said.
WHO has warned that only nine of Gaza's original 36 hospitals remain even partially functional.
We as an international community should not accept that thousands upon thousands of people, children are being blown up, being killed while they're crossing the street, while they're sleeping in their beds, Casey said.
This is an unacceptable situation, he said, demanding a ceasefire. This has to stop.