Israel is suffering a health crisis unleashed since the devastating terrorist attacks from the Gaza Strip on Israel on October 7, 2023, the World Health Organization (WHO) said on Friday.
“This Monday will mark a year of a collective trauma that has spared no one in the country, has spread at pandemic speed and has doubled and in some parts tripled the demand for mental health care,” said WHO representative Michel Thieren for Israel. .
“This is due to the attacks that killed approximately 1,200 people, the kidnapping of approximately 200 hostages to the Gaza Strip and the firing of approximately 19,000 rockets into Israel since then. About 75,000 people have been displaced and have not yet been able to return to Israel. their homes,” he said.
Moreover, the entire healthcare system in the north of the country only works in basements, shelters or parking garages. “A patient without daylight is a patient without the natural power to heal,” says Thieren.
He said no one will heal without peace and without the 101 hostages still held by the Palestinian Islamist group Hamas.
