Monday | 13 January 2025 | Reg No- 06
বাংলা
   
Monday | 13 January 2025 | Epaper
BREAKING: ● Dhaka expresses concern to Indian envoy over BSF activities      ● Body of another July Revolution martyr found at DMC morgue      ● One dengue patient dies, 57 hospitalised       ● BSF forced to stop fence construction: Jahangir       ● 1st HMPV case found in Bangladesh      ● Chankharpul killing: ICT orders to send constable Sujon to jail      ● India should allow Hasina to stay for as long as she wants: Congress leader       

Israeli bombing kills 150 over two days

UN condemns Israeli attacks on health facilities in Gaza causing ‘significant death, destruction’

Published : Sunday, 5 January, 2025 at 12:00 AM  Count : 114
GAZA, Jan 4: At least 150 people have been killed in two days of intense air strikes on Gaza, including at least 73 people reported killed throughout Friday and 77 confirmed killed on Thursday.

Amnesty International said Israel's detention of Kamal Adwan Hospital director Dr Hussam Abu Safia is emblematic of the "genocidal intent" in Israel's broader attempts to "annihilate" Gaza's healthcare sector.

As talks resume in Qatar, senior Hamas official Basem Naim said the Palestinian group is serious about a ceasefire deal, the withdrawal of Israeli forces from Gaza, and returning the enclave's population to their homes.

UN human rights chief Volker Turk said the world body has recorded 136 Israeli attacks on 27 health facilities in Gaza, causing "significant death and destruction".

UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Turk on Friday expressed concern over ongoing Israeli attacks on health care facilities in the Gaza Strip.

"A human rights catastrophe continues to unfold in Gaza before the eyes of the world," Türk told a Security Council meeting on the situation in the Middle East.

Israel's means and methods of warfare have killed tens of thousands of people, inflicted vast displacement and laid waste to the territory, he added.

"The destruction of hospitals across Gaza goes beyond depriving Palestinians of their right to access adequate health care. Those hospitals provided sanctuary for thousands of people with nowhere else to go," Turk stressed.

Underlining the UN repeatedly warned that Israel's military operations in North Gaza place the entire Palestinian population at risk through death and displacement, Turk said Israeli military operations in and around hospitals and associated combat have had a "terrible impact" precisely at a time of massive demands on health care due to the ongoing conflict.

Turk also called for "independent, thorough and transparent" investigations into all Israeli attacks on hospitals, healthcare infrastructure and medical personnel, as well as the alleged misuse of such facilities.

"I once more, warn in the strongest terms about the risk of atrocity crimes being committed in the occupied Palestinian territory. I urge all those with influence to take action accordingly and to protect civilians as a matter of absolute priority. It is essential that there is full accountability for all violations of international humanitarian and human rights," he added.

The rights chief called on Israel to ensure and facilitate access to live in humanitarian aid, including adequate health care for the Palestinian population, urging Israel to end its continued presence in the occupied Palestinian territory "as rapidly as possible."

Richard Peeperkorn, WHO representative for the West Bank and Gaza, told the Security Council that time and again hospitals have become battlegrounds, rendering them out of service and depriving those in need of lifesaving care.
    —AGENCIES



LATEST NEWS
MOST READ
Also read
Pak Deputy PM likely to arrive on Feb 5
EC fully focused on general election: Sanaullah
Two business leaders chopped by top terrorist Imon's cadres in city
Armed Forces' magistracy power extended for 60 days
EU envoy Miller meets Fakhrul, BNP leaders
Delhi committed to maintain crime free border: Indian HC
OMS suspension causes worries among urban poor
Woman of Bhairab infected with HMPV detected
Editor : Iqbal Sobhan Chowdhury
Published by the Editor on behalf of the Observer Ltd. from Globe Printers, 24/A, New Eskaton Road, Ramna, Dhaka.
Editorial, News and Commercial Offices : Aziz Bhaban (2nd floor), 93, Motijheel C/A, Dhaka-1000.
Phone: PABX- 41053001-06; Online: 41053014; Advertisement: 41053012.
E-mail: district@dailyobserverbd.com, news©dailyobserverbd.com, advertisement©dailyobserverbd.com, For Online Edition: mailobserverbd©gmail.com
🔝
close