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U.N. accuses Israel of pushing Gaza health system to 'brink of total collapse'

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🗓️ 31 December 2024

⏱️ 12 minutes

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The U.N. Human Rights Office says Israel's operations in Gaza have pushed the health care system "to the brink of total collapse" and may be a violation of international law. Israel accuses Hamas of integrating into hospitals and using staff as shields to attack Israel. Nick Schifrin discussed more with Dr. Zaher Sahloul of MedGlobal and Assaf Orion, a retired Israeli brigadier general. PBS News is supported by - https://www.pbs.org/newshour/about/funders

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0:00.0

Today, the UN Human Rights Office said that Israel's military operations in Gaza has pushed

0:06.2

the health care system there to, quote, the brink of total collapse and may be a violation

0:11.2

of international law. Israel accuses Hamas of integrating its operations into hospitals

0:17.3

and using hospital staff as shields to attack Israel. The debate has come to

0:22.3

ahead in the last few days over the Kamal-Adwan Hospital at the center of an ongoing Israeli

0:27.9

operation in northern Gaza. It was one of northern Gaza's final lifelines. Today, it is a shell

0:36.2

of dust and debris.

0:40.0

This weekend, with the help of a drone, Israeli soldiers announced final evacuation

0:43.9

orders to those left inside Kamal-Adwan Hospital.

0:48.2

Patients walked out of the hospital with their hands up, passed an Israeli tank through

0:52.3

a war zone.

0:53.6

The Israel Defense Forces says it facilitated the

0:55.9

evacuation of more than 350 patients to hospitals in Gaza City. Faris al-Affana was one of them.

1:02.9

We were taken for interrogation at around 3 p.m. They stripped us naked and left us there until

1:09.2

sunset and no one to aid us.

1:11.7

We were left in the dust.

1:13.3

Then one soldier would come every once in a while and would curse at us and spit at us.

1:17.9

It was very ugly.

1:20.2

For months, hospital director Dr. Hossam Abu Safia tried to alert the world, posting online, appealing for blood and supplies, and conditions he

1:28.7

described to us as catastrophic.

1:31.0

As you see now, there is one being near our hospital.

1:37.7

We are suffering from a lack of medications and medical supply and medical staff one day before one, our team doctor was killed.

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