(UN Watch) The UN's World Health Organization held a special debate on May 24 to single out Israel for allegedly violating the health rights of Palestinians and the Druze population in the Golan Heights. By a vote of 76 to 13, with 35 abstentions, the WHO assembly adopted a resolution submitted by the Syrian and Palestinian delegations requiring the WHO to hold the same debate next year and to prepare another report on the issue. No other country received a special agenda item at the WHO assembly. Nothing on Syria, where hospitals and other medical infrastructure are deliberately bombed by Syrian and Russian forces; nothing on Afghanistan, where the Taliban takeover has led to a collapse in basic health systems. Hillel Neuer, executive director of the Geneva-based UN Watch, said, "Anyone who has ever walked into an Israeli hospital or clinic knows that they provide world-class health care to thousands of Palestinian Arabs as well as to Syrians fleeing Assad."
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