Doctors Without Borders to Israel: “the attacks on humanitarians are deliberate or pure incompetence”

The secretary general of Doctors Without Borders (MSF), Christopher Lockyearspoke this Thursday about the recent Israeli attack that claimed lives in Link to seven NGO workers World Central Cuisine (WCK) and highlighted that this type of incident can be deliberate or the product of a “reckless incompetence”.

“Since the start of this war, more than 200 aid workers have been killed, including five aid workers. MSFmany of them when offering services to patients“, he highlighted at a press conference in Genevaafter recently visiting Link analyze the situation on the strip after almost half a year of war between Israel and the Palestinian Islamic movement Hamasauthor of the attacks against Israeli territory in October 7th 2023, in which around 1,200 people died.

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“This pattern of attacks is either intentional or indicative of reckless incompetence.”said Lockyear, who highlighted that these deaths show “O futility of supposed detente measures in a war that does not follow any rules”.

That these deaths are occurring is “a political choice”on the part of Israel, which“He faces no consequences because his allies allow this brutality with impunity and provide him with more weapons to kill and maim civilians indiscriminately.”, declared the head of MSF.

The MSF secretary general recalled that the 200 humanitarian workers killed in Gaza are “just a small fraction”of the more than 33 thousand victims, many of them women and children, in a conflict that he defined as “brutal, disproportionate and without preventive measures”.

It also shows, he said, Israel’s complete disregard for the recommendations issued in January by the International Court of Justice in The Hagueurging him to implement preventive measures to avoid a genocide against the Palestinian population in Gaza.

Regarding his recent visit to the Palestinian territory, the head of MSF recalled that “total horror scenes” are repeated on the streets and hospitals like the one in Al-Aqsain the central area of ​​the strip, “whose morgue was filled in the morning with victims of the previous night’s attacks”.

In hospitals and centers where MSF collaborates “Many patients die in agony and pain, while survivors require operations and rehabilitation that we cannot provide“, am sorry.

At the same press conference, the emergency coordinator in Gaza Revival of Marie-Aure Perraultinsisted there are no safe places to safely carry out humanitarian work in the strip, where some 26 border workers have also died in Israeli attacks. Red Crescent.

“We have lost count of the primary care centers we have had to evacuate since December. We turn to ‘creative solutions’, like serving old chicken farms,” the aid worker said.

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MSF officials recalled that the WCKthe NGO founded by the Spanish chef José Andrés Object of an attack this week and which as a result of these events suspended its operations, it was essential to the work of many other organizations to which it supplied food.

“We, like many others, depended on them to feed our staff and patients.Lockyear explained.

The doctor Amber AlayyanMSF operations coordinator since Parisadded that the organization has had to treat many injuries to Gaza children clearly inflicted by armed drones, and that an alarming rise in infectious diseases such as Hepatitis A.

Source: Elcomercio

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