Jerusalem News Agency – Minister of Health in the Government of the Authority: We refuse to establish a hospital near Erez

Side of the meeting

"The government has refused to set up a field hospital near the Beit Hanoun / Erez checkpoint in the northern Gaza Strip without coordinating with its ministry," Health Minister Mei Al-Hariri said on Wednesday. Kila. "This is part of the agreement of the century and plan to separate the Gaza Strip from the occupied West Bank."

During her meeting with the UN Deputy Special Coordinator and Humanitarian Coordinator in the Occupied Territories, Al-Kila said: "If the creation of this hospital has a humanitarian purpose, the first is to support and develop existing hospitals in the occupied territories. the Gaza Strip ".

"This project is wearing the dress of humanity and hides a serious political aspect," she said.

She called on McGillrick to send a message to all concerned stating that the Palestinian Authority government and the Ministry of Health "have nothing to do with the hospital."

She stressed that "the need for international institutions to clarify and reject this project, which aims to separate the West Bank from the Gaza Strip under the pretext of serving patients".

She discussed with McGoldrick the health situation in occupied Palestine and the challenges she faced at a meeting in her office in Ramallah, in the center of the occupied West Bank.

Al-Kila informed the UN chief of the health situation in Palestine in general and the government's efforts to support the health sector and consider it as a top priority despite the financial crisis.

"The Ministry of Health regularly sends drugs to its warehouses in Gaza," she said. "The drugs are purchased as part of a centralized tender, based on the needs of health centers in Gaza and the West Bank."

She added that "no drug clbad is missing in our Gaza Strip centers is already available in the occupied West Bank," stressing that "the Ministry has no control or supervision over how to distribute drugs in Gaza after arriving there. "

Al-Kila agreed with the Deputy Special Coordinator of the United Nations on "the need to activate drug control mechanisms entering the Gaza Strip in coordination with the Ministry of Health to ensure optimal access to the centers. and to the patients who need it, "according to the ministry.

Prime Minister Mohammed Ashtia demanded the need for coordination with the Ministry of Health regarding the establishment of an American hospital in the northern Gaza Strip.

Ashtia said: "No one has coordinated us on the hospital supposed to be funded by a special American institution. Israeli "on the northern border of the Gaza Strip, we do not know what this institution and those who follow it will follow, but the government is ready to discuss the project.

In the coming weeks, a 16-hectare field hospital, including 16 health departments in the northern Gaza Strip, will be set up as part of the truce between the enemy and the resistance in Gaza .

An international medical team will oversee the hospital, which is funded by an American organization and could help Qatar set it up, according to the Hebrew daily Yedioth Ahronoth.