SA Healthcare Workers For Palestine protests against attacks on Gaza hospitals

CPE TOWN - Healthcare Workers for Palestine said that the public health crisis in Gaza was engineered by the Israeli government. 

The movement highlighted International Genocide Victims' Day on Thursday, saying only 17 of 30 hospitals in Gaza were partially functional. 

Healthcare Workers for Palestine member, Dr Feroza Amien, said Israel's attacks on hospitals and clinics in Gaza were calculated steps in a genocide.     

"Starvation has been used as a weapon of war. Children are dying of malnutrition and dehydration, which is highly preventable. They have the highest number of child amputees per capita globally...that's in Palestine."

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Amien said ten children were losing one or both limbs every day in Gaza. 

"Healthcare workers in Gaza have repeatedly begged the world at large and all relevant international organisations to help them. Through their accounts, we see how the systemic destruction of healthcare is being used as a tool of genocide against the Palestinian people."     

The movement is calling for a permanent ceasefire in Gaza and for medical workers to be afforded more protection in the region.