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UN experts said on Wednesday that Israel’s slaughter of doctors and nurses and systematic destruction of the health care system in Gaza amounts to “medicide,” as Israel continues to block key medicines and medical supplies from entry into the besieged enclave.

“As human beings and UN experts, we cannot remain silent about the war crimes committed before our eyes in Gaza,” said Special Rapporteur on the right to health Tlaleng Mofokeng and Special Rapporteur for the occupied Palestinian territories Francesca Albanese in a statement.

“In addition to bearing witness to an ongoing genocide we are also bearing witness to a ‘medicide,’ a sinister component of the intentional creation of conditions calculated to destroy Palestinians in Gaza which constitutes an act of genocide,” the experts went on.

Israel’s starvation campaign in Gaza has reached new heights in recent weeks as everyone, including humanitarian........

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