The Israeli ministers of Foreign Affairs (Eli Cohen) and Health (Uriel Menachem Buso) today defended the current siege by their country’s army of several hospitals in northern Gaza in the face of criticism from the World Health Organization (WHO), with whose top officials will meet today in Geneva.
“We will tell the director general of the WHO (Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus) what everyone needs to know: in these hospitals, children and women are being used by terrorists as human shields,” said the health minister at the joint press conference. of both in Geneva.
“Terrorists are taking electricity from hospitals, using it for their own tunnels, and for their terror infrastructure,” he added.
His Foreign Affairs counterpart showed images of the Al Rantisi Children’s Hospital, one of those that have suffered attacks from the Israeli army, especially in the last week of fighting.
“Why do these hospitals need underground tunnels 10, 20, 30 meters underground? Because they are used as a base by a terrorist organization,” he stated.
“We will show all this data to the WHO, so they can see who they are funding,” Cohen said.
The Minister of Foreign Affairs, accompanied at the press conference also by four relatives of hostages kidnapped on October 7, stressed that with the visit to Geneva they also want to continue pressing for “the immediate release of all our civilians.”
“October 7 was the worst day for the Jewish people since the Holocaust,” Cohen reiterated at the press conference, held at the UN European headquarters in Geneva.
“The international community should clearly say that Gaza must be freed from Hamas, not only for the good of Israel but for the good of the people of the strip themselves,” added Cohen, who assured that “if we do not win, you will be next, because Islamic jihadism knows no borders.”
