Hamas appreciates PM's speech at the opening of the Council of Arab Health Ministers in Baghdad

Baghdad - INA

The Palestinian Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas) praised, today, Thursday, what was stated in the speech of Prime Minister Mohammed Shia al-Sudani during the opening of the Council of Arab Health Ministers in Baghdad in its 61st session, while calling on the attendees to adopt urgent plans to save the health sector in the Gaza Strip.

The movement said in a press statement - followed by the Iraqi News Agency (INA): "We, in the Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas), call on the Council of Arab Health Ministers in its 61st session, hosted by the Republic of Iraq, to ​​adopt urgent practical decisions and plans to save the health sector system and hospitals in the Gaza Strip, which have been subjected to the systematic destruction of all their capabilities and medical cadres, for more than a year, due to the aggression and genocidal war committed by the Zionist occupation against our people in the Gaza Strip. 

He added, "We appreciate the speech of the Iraqi Prime Minister, Mohammed Shia al-Sudani, at the opening of the session, in which he stressed "attention and the necessity of supporting our people in Gaza as they suffer from the collapse of the health sector and the loss of care and treatment, under the pressure of aggression and siege.".

Hamas continued, "We confirm the fact that all hospitals in the Gaza Strip are out of service, and lack the most basic medical capabilities, with the increasing number of wounded, injured and sick people, the continued Zionist aggression and targeting of health sector workers, and the lack of all the components of human life, including food, medicine and fuel, portends an increase in the number of deaths, especially among the wounded, injured and sick children, women and the elderly, which calls for the concerted efforts of our Arab and Islamic nation, and the capabilities of Arab health ministers, to take urgent steps, especially the following:

First - Pressure by all means on the Zionist occupation to bring field hospitals with all their specialities and medical staff into the entire Gaza Strip.