'Children in Gaza are hanging by a thread,' said a UNICEF director, calling for attacks on healthcare facilities to stop immediately and the urgent delivery of supplies to hospitals.
As Israeli forces waged what al-Shifa's director described as a 'war against hospitals' in Gaza on Friday, United Nations officials, human rights groups , and doctors demanded the protection of medical facilities and renewed calls for a cease-fire. 'Half of the Gaza Strip's 36 hospitals and two-thirds of its primary healthcare centers are not functioning at all,' World Health Organization Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus told the U.N. Security Council.
' Steve Sosebee of the Palestinian Children's Relief Fund, which runs al-Rantisi's pediatric cancer unit, said Friday that the hospital had been 'overrun with thousands of internally displaced people while continuing cancer treatments for patients.' 'These are kids with cancer. They're starting to relapse and fall out of remission,' he continued. 'According to the Israeli army, hospitals are legitimate military targets.
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