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UN: Israel's Deliberate Destruction of Gaza Healthcare, Killing Medical Staff Amounts to Extermination

Oct 10, 2024, 10:28 PM

A United Nations inquiry has concluded that Israel carried out a concerted policy to destroy Gaza's healthcare system during the Gaza war, actions amounting to war crimes and the crime against humanity of extermination. Released on Thursday, the UN-backed report accuses Israel of deliberately targeting medical facilities and personnel, including the deliberate killing of medical staff, effectively crippling Gaza's health sector. The experts described the attacks as "relentless" and "deliberate," noting that air strikes, power outages, and shortages of essential supplies have pushed nearly every hospital in the northern Gaza Strip out of service.