The United Nations announced that 22 health care workers have been killed in the Gaza Strip since October 7.
Farhan Haq, deputy spokesman for United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres, explained in a press conference on Wednesday that the World Health Organization documented 178 attacks that led to the death of 22 health care workers and the injury of 48 others in Gaza.
He added that 770,000 people out of 1.7 million displaced Palestinians reside in 99 UNRWA facilities in Wadi Gaza.
He pointed out that there was an increase of 35 percent in skin diseases and 40 percent in cases of diarrhea in those facilities during the past two weeks.
Since October 7, the Israeli army has been waging a devastating war on Gaza, which has left more than 14,532 Palestinians dead, including more than 6,000 children and 4,000 women, as well as more than 35,000 injured, more than 75 percent of whom are children and women. According to the government media office in Gaza.
