00:00So we will begin with the pressing need and the pressing concern about the collapse of the healthcare sector
00:07and the healthcare industry on the whole in Palestine following the attacks by Israel.
00:14How are people coping up there?
00:16Again, thank you so much indeed, Bankaj, for having me.
00:19There is a lot of devastating situation and all the whole entire sectors in Palestine have been enduring in a
00:27catastrophic situation.
00:28But mainly this day I had been convened this press conference to shed light in a very devastating and very
00:37critical and very impressing situation we are enduring in Palestine.
00:42The health sector at large, the health situation in Palestine is on the brink of totally collapse, utterly collapse.
00:51Let me just remind all your audience that for the 986 days of genocidal war that had been launched by
01:02the Israeli against the entire Palestinian people,
01:05especially in Gaza, 19 out of 36 hospitals in Gaza is still partially working.
01:14The other, of course, the other 17 hospitals have been totally, utterly, completely razed and demolished and completely destroyed.
01:23So only 19 out of 36 is still partially working.
01:29When you talk about 19 out of 36 in a devastating situation where there are more than 170,000 Palestinians
01:37who had been injured during the last live stream genocidal war,
01:42this means a lot of pressure on the health system.
01:45When we talk about the health system when we talk about the health system in Gaza itself with the limitation
01:51of the access of the health and the tablets,
01:56health issue and the necessary medical supply due to the Israeli measures in the border,
02:03this means another more pressure on the health system in Gaza.
02:08When it came to the West Bank due to the Israeli assangulation financial measures that had been took by the
02:16Israeli government and withholding of the Palestinian tax revenue
02:21that reached more than $5.5 billion up today, that we received zero of it.
02:29This means that the two main sectors or the two main major sectors that consume the budget, the Palestinian budget,
02:38which is the health and, of course, the education system.
02:42The health system is in the brinks again, in the West Bank, in the brinks of collapse.
02:48Last year, during this period, I mean, since the beginning of 2025 up to June 2025,
02:5665,000 different types of surgeries have been conducted.
03:00This year, in the same exact period, only 19,500 surgeries have been conducted.
03:0811,000 surgeries have been postponed.
03:12Out of 97 necessary medicine, necessary tablets for the cancer, for treatment of the cancer,
03:2250 of these, 97 is out of the shell, is not founded in the Minister of Health.
03:32Out of more than 580 different type of medicine, only 180 types still founded, and we are in this.
03:40But what I would like to say that the health situation, the health sector in Palestine is, so to speak,
03:52is working in the very lowest level, which did not survive and serve the people.
04:02There are tens of people still losing their life due to this shortages of health and health care.
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