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Three patients were killed, Friday morning, in the Nasser Medical Complex in Khan Yunis, south of the Gaza Strip, which is besieged by the Israeli occupation forces.
Medical sources in the complex reported that three patients died in the intensive care room as a result of the cessation of oxygen due to the power outage.
The sources also announced that two women gave birth “in dire and inhumane conditions, without electricity, without water, without food, and without heating, in the Nasser Medical Complex.”
The sources said that the near exhaustion of fuel and the Israeli blockade threaten the lives of patients and premature babies in the complex, holding the Israeli occupation responsible for the lives of patients and medical teams, and calling on all international institutions to quickly intervene to save the patients and medical teams in the complex.
The occupation forces had forced the administration of the Nasser Medical Complex to place 95 health personnel, 11 of their families, 191 patients, and 165 companions and displaced people in the old Nasser building, in harsh and frightening conditions, without food, without baby formula, and an acute water shortage.
This comes after the independent United Nations Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the occupied Palestinian territory, Francesca Albanese, described Israel’s decision to ban her from entering the country as “symbolic and misleading” and as “a distraction from the atrocities being committed in Gaza,” as she put it.
The Special Rapporteur said, in a press statement issued yesterday, Thursday, that Israel, since its arrest and deportation of then-UN Special Rapporteur Richard Falk in 2008, has prevented the entry of all UN special rapporteurs concerned with the human rights situation in the Palestinian Territory occupied since 1967.
The Special Rapporteur stated that Israel “claims that the ban follows its comments regarding the context in which the Hamas attacks occurred on 7 October,” noting that the motivation behind her comments was the French President’s description of the attacks as “the greatest anti-Semitic massacre of our century.”
Francesca Albanese said that she strongly and consistently condemned these heinous attacks as war crimes that cannot be justified in any way, and because of the fear and distress they spread among Israelis.
The Special Rapporteur stated, “While my condemnation of the attacks was unequivocal, I also felt compelled to challenge the persistent misinterpretation of the root causes of the October 7 attacks, especially in Western countries: that the motivation behind the attacks was primarily anti-Semitism.” .
She went on to say: “As leading scholars in the field of the Holocaust and anti-Semitism have warned, this assumption is both false and dangerous because it evades the important foundations of the conflict and disavows Israel’s role in fueling it.”
It is noteworthy that special rapporteurs and independent experts are appointed by the Human Rights Council in Geneva, which is an intergovernmental body responsible for promoting and protecting human rights around the world. Rapporteurs and experts are tasked with studying human rights situations and submitting reports on them to the Human Rights Council. It should be noted that this position is honorary, and these experts are not considered employees of the United Nations and do not receive compensation for their work.