Zionist Entity’s Continued Slaughter of Palestinian Medics

Date: 11 August 2024 - 21:45

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By: Kayhan International

The medical profession, as evident by the ‘Hippocratic Oath’, is at the service of all humanity and not meant to serve any particular people, race, class, language, country or religion.

Physicians, surgeons, paramedics, and all medical workers adhere to the highest standard of ethics, and operate under all operate under even the most adverse situations, including natural disasters such as floods, storms, famines, and earthquakes.

They know no frontiers, and even fearlessly discharge their duties during wars, often serving casualties of both belligerents, without causing harm to the patients.

The UN specifies their immunity, warns against any physical harm to them or disruption of their duties.

Yet, inhuman regimes, especially the racist/terrorist Zionist entity, has no regard for these humanitarian principles.

According to reports it has so far killed and seriously injured over 500 medical workers, including physicians and surgeons in its ongoing 10-month long genocide in Gaza.

Many Palestinian doctors, including specialists, were victims of target-killings by the Israelis.

In addition, the Israeli invaders kidnapped some 310 medical workers destroyed over 130 ambulances.

The Zionist military forces deliberately target the medical infrastructure in Gaza, severely hampering the local population’s access to essential healthcare services.

As a result, poor water and sanitation conditions, compounded by overcrowding, have led to a rise in preventable diseases and premature deaths.

According to the latest report, “Gaza is now confronting a public health disaster due to unsafe water resources and a lack of basic hygiene necessities for over 1.7 million forcibly displaced individuals.”

It also pointed to a critical shortage of healthcare workers and medical supplies, including anaesthesia and antibiotics, which has left healthcare providers struggling to save lives in Gaza.

All this is happening with direct US support for Israel’s crimes against humanity that has so far killed almost 40,000 Gazans, most of them women and children, while the UN protests have failed to stop the holocaust.

This is the sorry state of our supposedly civilized world because of the violation of humanitarian principles by the US and its proxies, especially the Zionist entity.