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The US has sanctioned a far-right Israeli activist who, Israeli media report, is close to controversial far-right National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir.
The state department designated Ben-Zion Gopstein, the founder and leader of Lehava, which opposes assimilation with non-Jews. Meanwhile in Gaza, the United Nations condemns the intentional destruction of complex and hard-to-obtain medical equipment in Gaza's beleaguered hospitals.
The US state department says that under Gopstein’s leadership, "Lehava and its members have been involved in acts or threats of violence against Palestinians, often targeting sensitive or volatile areas". Dominic Allen, the UN Population Fund's (UNFPA) representative for Palestine says that recent UN-led missions to 10 hospitals in Gaza found many "in ruins", and only a couple still capable of providing maternal health services, according to AFP.
Gopstein was banned in 2019 from standing as a candidate for Ben Gvir's Otzma Yehudit party and in January was convicted of incitement to racism. He speaks of Al-Khair maternity hospital in Khan Younis, where "it didn't seem as if there was any piece of working medical equipment", adding that the birthing rooms "stand silent".
"They should be a place of giving life and they just have an eerie sense of death."
Allen's statement is also carried by UN News, where he is quoted as saying:
“What I saw, it breaks my heart…It's indescribable. What we see there is medical equipment, purposefully broken, ultrasounds – which you will know is a very important tool for helping ensure safe births – with cables that have been cut, screens of complex medical equipment like ultrasounds and other with the screens smashed. So, purposeful, wanton destruction in the maternity ward.”
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