Geneva – SABA:
The Director-General of the World Health Organization (WHO), Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, on Tuesday condemned the Israeli military’s destruction of the Noura Al-Kaabi Dialysis Center in northern Gaza.
In a post on X (formerly Twitter), Ghebreyesus stated: “The Noura dialysis center in northern Gaza is now a pile of rubble.”
He emphasized that the destruction of this health facility poses a direct threat to the lives of patients suffering from kidney failure. The center had previously provided dialysis services to 40 patients per week before it was leveled.
He noted that the WHO had managed to relocate 20 out of the 23 dialysis machines from the center to a safe location prior to the attack.
Ghebreyesus renewed his call for a ceasefire and urged immediate protection for all health facilities and medical personnel.
In his post, he also shared a before-and-after image comparison—one showing the center as it stood last year, and another depicting it reduced to rubble.
Medical sources warned that the destruction of the center puts the health of kidney failure patients in northern Gaza in extreme jeopardy. They reported that 41% of such patients have died amid the ongoing genocide, due to denial of access to dialysis centers and the destruction of facilities dedicated to their care.
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