UK Parliament Hears Testimonies on Gaza's Health System
(MENAFN) The British Parliament’s Foreign Affairs Committee convened an open evidence hearing to explore conditions in Gaza, inviting humanitarian relief workers and medical practitioners who have journeyed to the enclave over recent months.
During the session, pediatric intensive care physician Tanya Haj Hassan—affiliated with the UK based charity Medical Aid for Palestinians—testified that Israel has "systematically targeted and destroyed" the territory’s health care network.
She continued, “At least 1,500 health care workers have been killed to date in Gaza, including several of my former students. I had taught them when they were medical students. And I can tell your viewers right now, these are some of the most dedicated health care workers that I have ever encountered,” underscoring the human toll on medical personnel.
Opening the hearing, Committee Chair Emily Thornberry urged witnesses to supply as much detail as possible for the public, "because they won't see it on the front page of the newspapers in the way that they might have if there hadn't been the war with Iran."
Haj Hassan concurred, noting that the Iran Israel confrontation is "the most recent development of turning off the lights on what's happening in Gaza."
She reminded lawmakers that international journalists and independent investigators have been barred from the strip for roughly twenty months.
“So humanitarian workers are some of the only independent witnesses on the ground, and we can consistently emerge, sharing harrowing details that are morally and legally sufficient to warrant a response, and we haven't seen that response," Haj Hassan added.
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