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Comments to the media by Christopher Lockyear, secretary general of Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF); and Remi Carrier, who recently returned from Gaza where he was an MSF emergency coordinator, on the situation in Palestine.

Pain and suffering are the most prominent title of the situation in hospitals in the Gaza Strip, which are suffering from overcrowding and lack of equipment, medical supplies and fuel, but doctors in the Gaza Strip continue day and night to heal wounds and ease the pain of the injured. Dr Abd al-Rahman al-Tayeb, who works at Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital in Deir al-Balah in the central Gaza Strip, is one of these doctors.

The situation in the Middle East.

Noon Briefing by Farhan Haq, Deputy Spokesperson for the Secretary-General

Presentation of reports under Agenda Item 3: Promotion and protection of all human rights, civil, political, economic, social and cultural rights, including the right to development - A/HRC/53/18, A/HRC/53/42, A/HRC/53/43, A/HRC/53/44, A/HRC/53/46, A/HRC/53/49, A/HRC/53/50, A/HRC/53/51

Vote on Draft Resolution A/HRC/50/L.13/Rev.1 - Access to medicines, vaccines and other health products in the context of the right of everyone to the enjoyment of the highest attainable standard of physical and mental health - Submitted by Brazil, China, Egypt, India, Indonesia, Senegal, South Africa, Thailand ------> ADOPTED WITHOUT A VOTE

Noon briefing by Stephen Dujarric, Spokesperson for the Secretary-General.

"I applied for the UN Disarmament Fellowship Programme […] and very wisely, this programme takes you to Hiroshima and Nagasaki"

The virtual panel discussion "Ethics, Justice and the Holocaust" considered the issue of medical ethics during, and in response to, the Holocaust.