Israel blocks medical convoy evacuating patients from hospital in Gaza
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Published at: 28/02/2024 03:30 PM
The Office of the United Nations (UN)
for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) reported
this Wednesday that the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) blocked the passage of a medical convoy for approximately
seven hours that evacuated 24 patients from the Al Amal
hospital, in the city Khan Yunis, in the Gaza Strip.
In a statement, OCHA said that the convoy
was led by the World Health Organization (WHO) as soon as they
left the hospital. They detail that the military removed the patients, including a
pregnant woman and a newborn, from the
ambulances, and the paramedics, who were humiliated and made to take off their clothes.
The text indicates that three paramedics were arrested by
the IDF, “despite the fact that their personal data had been handed over to Israeli forces
in advance”, stressing that one of them was
later released, while two others remain being held, so
OCHA called for their “immediate release”.
The organization recalled that “aid convoys have been
attacked and are systematically denied access to people in
need”, so, they say, this is not an “isolated incident”.
Mazo News Team