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Israeli forces withdrew from Kamal Adwan hospital in the city of Beit Lahia on Saturday after a dayslong siege, leaving a trail of destruction inside one the area's last medical lifelines, with overnight strikes on the city killing at least 30 people, local authorities said. Outside the hospital, local authorities reported Israeli airstrikes demolished several houses including in Beit Lahia's Al-Khazan neighborhood. The IDF called the overnight bombings in Beit Lahia “a precise strike using precise munitions,” targeting Hamas infrastructure and militants. A damaged ambulance outside Kamal Adwan Hospital in Beit Lahia on Saturday. The nation's Foreign Minister Ayman Safadi told Blinken that Israel was ethnically cleansing Palestinians from Gaza.
Persons: Kamal Adwan, Beit Lahia, Volker Turk, Beit Lahia's Al, Munir Abdullah Al, Bursh, Tedros Adhanom, Joyce Msuya, Jordan, Antony Blinken, Ayman Safadi, Blinken, Organizations: Troops, IDF, United, Gaza’s Ministry of Health, Israel Defense Forces, NBC News, World Health Organization, NBC, Kamal, AFP, Getty, Health Ministry, Humanitarian Affairs, Israel, American Locations: Beit, Beit Lahia's, Khazan, Beit Lahia, Gaza, Israel, United States, London
When I went down, they put me inside a tank and began interrogating me about my statements and contact with the media,” Abu Safiya recounted. Israeli forces cut off the hospital’s electricity and solar power supply and prevented staff from accessing the water well, he said. Two children on ventilators died after the Israeli military blew up the hospital’s oxygen supply, Abu Safiya said. Three members of the hospital’s nursing staff were injured by sniper fire with facial, neck and chest injuries. “The situation is extremely tragic and terrifying, and the bombing is continuous,” Abu Safiya said,.
Persons: Kamal Adwan, Hussam Abu Safiya, ” Abu Safiya, Abu Safiya, , ventilators, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus Organizations: Kamal Adwan Hospital, CNN, Gaza Ministry of Health, United Nations, World Health Organization, WHO Locations: Gaza
CNN —Israeli forces entered the compound of northern Gaza’s Kamal Adwan Hospital and opened fire after days of laying siege to the facility, health authorities in the enclave said. The Gaza health ministry and the director of the hospital in Beit Lahiya, northern Gaza, have told CNN that the Israeli military twice entered the hospital compound over the past 24 hours and fired at parts of the complex. Kamal Adwan is one of three minimally operational hospitals in northern Gaza, and the closest to Israeli military activity in Beit Lahiya and the Jabalya Refugee Camp. We have nothing to offer them.”It has been 21 days since Israel ramped up its military operation in northern Gaza. Authorities in Gaza say the military has stopped aid from reaching parts of the area and displaced many of its residents.
Persons: Kamal Adwan, Dr Hussam Abu Safiya, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, ” Ghebreyesus, Kamal Adwan “, WHO’s Ghebreyesus, , ’ Maher Shamiya, Shamiya, , Safiya, Abu Safiya, , Israel ramped Organizations: CNN, Health, World Health Organization, WHO, Shifa, Getty, UNICEF, Intensive Care Unit, Authorities Locations: Gaza, Beit Lahiya, AFP, Jabalya, Israel
Four sources have told CNN that the Israeli cabinet has not adopted the siege proposal put forward by retired general Giora Eiland. Eiland last month proposed forcing all civilians out of northern Gaza, including Gaza City, and then cutting off all supplies to the area. The World Food Programme told CNN on Friday that no food trucks had entered northern Gaza since the start of the month. Palestinians in northern Gaza say that this week has brought some of the most intense military action of the war. Meanwhile, seven attempts this week by the World Health Organization to reach northern Gaza were “denied or impeded,” Director-General Dr. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said Thursday.
Persons: Benjamin Netanyahu, Giora, Eiland, , ” Eiland, Yahya Sinwar’s, , General Gershon Hacohen, Omer Bartov, CNN Eiland, Lahia –, Al Mawasi, Avichay Adraee, Salah al, Netanyahu, Kan, Mohammad Ibrahim, Mahmoud Issa, ” Ibrahim, Dr, Hussam Abu Saifiya, Kamal Adwan, Al Awda, , Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus Organizations: CNN, Israel Defense Forces, Brown University, Rhode Island ., Food Programme, , ” CNN, Generals, Hospital, World Health Organization, Locations: Gaza, Jabalya, Israel’s, Eiland, Gaza City, Israeli, Rhode Island, Gaza’s, Israel, Al, Ahli
Aid workers reached more than 90% of targeted vaccine coverage in the first phase of the UN-led campaign, according to the UN’s agency for Palestine refugees, UNRWA. Israel’s offensive in Gaza, launched after the Hamas-led October 7 attacks, has precipitated a humanitarian crisis and flattened critical infrastructure. Meanwhile, Israeli aid restrictions have severely depleted fuel stocks, chlorine and spare parts, stifling water production, purification and sewage pumping, according to the agency. Then in August, an 11-month old boy became the first person in Gaza in 25 years to be diagnosed with polio. Relief workers described repeated challenges to the campaign rollout – especially in northern Gaza – citing Israeli evacuation orders, roads damaged by bombardment, increased hostilities and scant fuel supplies.
Persons: , Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, , ” Mahmoud Shalabi, ” Shalabi Organizations: CNN, World Health Organization, WHO, UN, UNRWA, Humanitarian Affairs, United, WHO . Relief, Aid, MAP Locations: Gaza, Palestine, United Nations, Israel
Nearly 4% of clade 1b mpox cases are deadly, compared to less than 1% of the 2022 subtype, called clade 2b. Is the U.S. at risk for a similar mpox outbreak? The Jynneos mpox vaccine, given in two doses, is effective for both clade 1 and clade 2 of mpox, according to the CDC. Despite the dismal uptake, those vaccines are abundant in the U.S., compared to African countries. “I’m a lot more concerned for the people in African countries where those vaccines are not available,” she said.
Persons: Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, , Angela Rasmussen, Organizations: Democratic, Centers for Disease Control, CDC, NBC News, World Health Organization, WHO, Central African, U.S, , University of Saskatchewan Locations: Democratic Republic of Congo, Africa, United States, Congo, Kenya, Central African Republic, U.S, Canada
Children walking near stagnant wastewater on their way to a food distribution point in Deir al Balah, in central Gaza, last week. The large number of people treated for war injuries — almost 90,000, Gaza’s health ministry says — and the surge in illness have overwhelmed Gaza’s diminished medical system. The Israeli military has launched two operations at Gaza’s largest hospital, Al-Shifa, fighting deadly battles with militants there. Before the war, Gaza’s health care system was “reasonably well functional,” said Dr. Rik Peeperkorn, the W.H.O.’s representative to Gaza and the West Bank. Now, fewer than half of its facilities remain even partly operational, he said, and its health care work force is severely depleted.
Persons: Sally Thabet, Deir al, “ Amoon, , Israel, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, poliovirus, Dr, Hanan Balkhy, , Balkhy, Rik Peeperkorn, Organizations: World Health Organization, Hamas, The New York Times, West Bank Locations: Deir al Balah, Gaza, Gaza City, Deir, Kandi, Gaza’s, Al, Israel
But living in a former minimart, sharing a toilet with 20 others and washing dishes with dirty seawater, no amount of hand sanitizer could help. One by one her girls fell sick with what doctors diagnosed as hepatitis A, a viral liver infection that is transmitted through person-to-person contact or contaminated food or water, and can spread quickly in unsanitary conditions. More than 100,000 people in Gaza have contracted acute jaundice syndrome, or suspected hepatitis A, since the war between Hamas and Israel began on Oct. 7, the World Health Organization said last week. There are also nearly one million cases of acute respiratory infections, half a million cases of diarrhea and 100,000 cases of lice and scabies, the W.H.O. On Friday, the agency’s chief, Dr. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, said that even polio, a disease that has been eradicated in much of the world, was present in Gaza.
Persons: Sally Thabet, Deir al, “ Amoon, , Israel, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, poliovirus Organizations: World Health Organization Locations: Gaza City, Deir, Deir al Balah, Kandi, Gaza
CNN —The highly infectious polio virus has been found in sewage samples in Gaza, putting thousands of Palestinians at risk of contracting a disease that can cause paralysis. Gaza’s Ministry of Health and the World Health Organization (WHO) both said they had carried out tests and found samples of the virus in sewage water. “Poliovirus type 2 (VDPV2) had been identified at six locations in sewage samples collected on 23 June from Khan Younis and Deir al Balah,” WHO said Friday. The Palestinian Ministry of Health in Gaza called for practices to improve hygiene and safety. Meanwhile, hospitals in central Gaza said more than 20 people were killed after two Israeli air strikes on houses in the Nuseirat area.
Persons: Khan Younis, Deir al Balah, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, ” Tedros Organizations: CNN, Ministry of Health, World Health Organization, WHO, United Nations, UNICEF, Hamas, Palestinian Ministry of Health, Israel Defense Forces Locations: Gaza
“People started stealing just to eat… Sick children cannot withstand famine.”Umm Ubaida comforts her daughter, Yasmin, aged 5, in Nasser Hospital, on Tuesday. CNNCNN footage from Nasser Hospital on Tuesday showed another evacuee – five-year-old blood cancer patient Yasmin – squirming in pain, her emaciated limbs sprawled on a teal mattress. Among those are 980 children with cancer – including 250 patients who could face “certain death” – the ministry reported on Friday. Israeli attacks in Gaza have since killed 37,718 Palestinians and injured another 86,377 people, according to Gaza health officials. Brothers Amjad, aged 2, and Ahmad, aged 7, are shown in Nasser Hospital, southern Gaza, before their medical evacuation to Egypt.
Persons: Samira, Saeedi, Jouri, Umm Ubaida, Yasmin, Yasmin – squirming, , Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, Karem Shalom, , , Kamal Adwan, Brothers Amjad, Ahmad, CNN Shadi Mustafa Hussein Yassin, Son, Siraj, Organizations: CNN, World Health Organization, WHO, , Nasser Hospital, CNN CNN, West Bank, Ministry of Health, Kamal, Aqsa Martyrs Hospital Locations: Gaza, Israel, Rafah, Cairo, Egypt, Nasser, Karem, East Jerusalem, , Hospital, Nuseirat, Al, Aqsa
CNN —Health workers in northern Gaza exhumed the first corpses from mass graves in and around Al-Shifa Hospital on Tuesday, after they said Israeli forces killed hundreds of Palestinians and left their bodies to decompose during their two-week siege of the complex. Many of the decomposed remnants they discovered had been buried or were found above ground, officials told CNN on Monday. Palestinians walk through the destroyed Al-Shifa Hospital, in northern Gaza, on April 1. Gazan health workers told CNN they exhumed the first bodies from mass graves dug by Israeli forces. Tell me where my husband is?”Palestinians at Al-Shifa told CNN say they want to give their loved ones a proper funeral, lamenting the indignity of their deaths.
Persons: Mahmoud Basal, ” Ahmad Alaiwa, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, , “ Shifa, Jonathan Whittall, Mohammed Hajjar, Shifa, Yoav Gallant, Israel, ” Motasem Salah, , Salah, Ghassan Riyad Qunaitta, ” Qunaitta, Dawoud Abo, Nuha Swailem, ” Swailem Organizations: CNN — Health, Shifa, Gaza Civil, CNN, Al, WHO, World Health Organization, Humanitarian Affairs, UN, Israel Defense Forces IDF, IDF, Israeli, Hamas, Ministry of Health, ” CNN, Dawoud Abo Alkas, Getty, Gaza’s Ministry of Health Locations: Gaza, Al, Shifa, Israel, Gaza City, Anadolu, Palestine
CNN —Israeli military forces have withdrawn from Gaza’s largest hospital, Al-Shifa, after a 14-day siege that witnesses and Gazan authorities say left the medical facility largely destroyed. “There are bodies buried in the hospital yards.”Images from the area showed widespread destruction with charred and pockmarked buildings inside the complex. More than 30 wounded people were transported from Al-Shifa to the Al-Ahli Baptist Hospital east of Gaza City, Bassal said. Last week, residents of the area around Al-Shifa told CNN there was heavy firing in the vicinity. Second raidThis raid was the second of its kind at the hospital, with the IDF first raiding Al-Shifa in November.
Persons: , Mahmoud Bassal, , Shifa, Bassal, ” Hamada Abdelhadi, Khader, Wafa, Za’anoun, , Jake Sullivan, Tedros Adhanom Organizations: CNN, Civil Defense, Al, Ahli Baptist Hospital, Israel Defense Forces, Health, IDF, Hamas, Getty, National, World Health Organization, WHO, Integrated Locations: Al, Ahli, Gaza City, Gaza, Israel, , AFP, Israel’s, United States, , UN
Truce Talks Expected to Resume in Egypt
  + stars: | 2024-03-31 | by ( The New York Times | ) www.nytimes.com   time to read: +4 min
Israel has rejected accusations that it is responsible for delays in delivering aid, and it did so again this week. The amount of aid reaching Gaza has fallen sharply since the start of Israel’s war with Hamas. “It’s not just about the number of trucks coming in the border,” Mr. Lockyear said in an interview on Saturday. This week, Mr. Lockyear said, an M.S.F. “These items, which were formerly approved to go in, we have got them into Gaza previously,” Mr. Lockyear said.
Persons: Christopher Lockyear, Israel, It’s, Mr, Lockyear, , , al Balah, Deir al Balah, Tedros Adhanom Organizations: International Court of Justice, Hamas, United Nations ’, Foreign, United Nations, World Health Organization Locations: Gaza, Hague, Israel, Gaza — Israel, Rafah, Al Aqsa, Deir al,
CNN —Israeli forces last week launched another military operation on Gaza’s largest hospital, Al-Shifa, bringing the sprawling medical facility north of the enclave back into the spotlight. Here’s what we know:Why are the Israeli forces raiding Al-Shifa again? Palestinian residents leave the area with a few items after Israeli forces besiege the Al-Shifa hospital with tanks and heavy gunfire in Gaza City, Gaza on March 18, 2024. Dawoud Abo Alkas/Anadolu/Getty ImagesResidents of the area around Al-Shifa told CNN there was heavy firing in the vicinity. Meanwhile a doctor who cared for patients trapped inside Al-Shifa told CNN he fears two severely malnourished siblings will not survive due to lack of care and medication.
Persons: Shifa, , Yoav Gallant, Gallant, Israel, Dawoud Abo, , Mohammad Al Shawwa, Al Shawwa, , ” Al Shawwa, Al Shawwa’s, Dr Ali Alghaliz, Rafiq Dughmosh, Rafif Dughmosh, Alghaliz, Mahmoud, Rafiq, “ Rafiq, Dr Ali, ” Alghaliz, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, ” Ghebreyesus, Jake Sullivan, Lloyd Austin, Jacquelyn Martin, ” Sullivan, Samantha Power Organizations: CNN, Israeli, Israel Defense Forces, Al, United Nations, IDF, Defense Ministry, Hamas, Islamic Jihad, Shifa, Dawoud Abo Alkas, Getty, Islamic, Al Ahli Baptist Hospital, Aid, Health Organization, WHO, National, US, Pentagon, US Agency for International Development, USAID Locations: Al, Gaza City, Gaza, Israel, , , Anadolu, Al Ahli, Israel’s, Shifa, Rafah,
CNN —The Israeli military launched an operation on Monday against Gaza’s largest hospital facility, Al-Shifa, where thousands of people are sheltering. “Military vehicles are firing at the hospital buildings’ windows, and at anyone who is caught moving between the hallways,” Hamada Abdelhadi, a displaced Palestinian man seeking shelter at Al-Shifa, told CNN. One witness who lives in nearby Gaza City told CNN he had seen “a big invasion of tanks” headed toward Al-Shifa. And dead bodies and those injured were pulled away by Israeli forces,” he told CNN by phone. During the first round of fighting at Al-Shifa in November, Israel urged Gaza’s northern residents to head south to seek refuge.
Persons: , , Israel, ” Hamada Abdelhadi, Al Jazeera, Ismail Al, Abdelhadi, Abdullah Mohammed, ” Mohammed, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, Shifa, , Cindy McCain, Antonio Guterres, ” Guterres, Gazans, Benjamin Netanyahu’s, Martin Griffiths, Daniel Hagari, CNN’s Amir Tal, Mostafa Salem, Joshua Berlinger Organizations: CNN, Gaza’s, Israel Defense Forces, IDF, Health, Al, , World Health Organization, WHO, United, Food, UN, Israeli Locations: Al, Gaza, , Gaza City, Israel, United States, Rafah, United Nations
An Israeli strike outside a hospital in Rafah, in southern Gaza, on Saturday killed at least 11 people and injured dozens of other displaced Palestinians, including children, who were sheltering in tents nearby, the Gaza Health Ministry said. At least two health care workers, including a paramedic, were among those killed after the strike near the gate of the Emirati maternity hospital, the health ministry said. The victims of the strike were sheltering near the Emirati maternity hospital, one of the last hospitals still functioning in Gaza. The Emirati hospital is essentially “the last hope for pregnant women in the whole of Gaza,” Mr. Allen said. A strike so close to the hospital poses a “terrifying” risk to pregnant women, newborns and the overloaded health care workers trying to care for them, he added.
Persons: Abdul Fattah Abu Marai, Benjamin Netanyahu, Israel, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, Dominic Allen, Mr, Allen Organizations: Gaza Health Ministry, “ Islamic, World Health Organization, United Nations Population Fund Locations: Israeli, Rafah, Gaza, Kuwaiti, stretchers, Gaza’s, State, Palestine
The death toll in Gaza passed a somber milestone on Thursday as the local health ministry reported that more than 30,000 people had been killed in the war since Oct. 7. Still, the reported figure is staggering — roughly one person killed for every 73 Palestinians in Gaza, whose population is about 2.2 million. The figures provided by the Gazan health ministry do not distinguish between civilians and combatants. In addition to bearing the risk of being killed in strikes or fighting, Palestinians are living with the growing specter of famine and disease. The health ministry has said infants have died from dehydration and malnutrition in recent days.
Persons: Farouk, Israel, , , Biden, CBS’s, Adhanom Ghebreyesus Organizations: Hamas, World Health Organization Locations: Al, Rafah, Gaza, Israel, ” Israel, U.S, Jerusalem
Death Toll in Gaza Passes 30,000
  + stars: | 2024-02-29 | by ( Victoria Kim | More About Victoria Kim | ) www.nytimes.com   time to read: +3 min
The death toll in Gaza passed a somber milestone on Thursday as the local health ministry reported that more than 30,000 people had been killed in the war since Oct. 7. Still, the reported figure is staggering — roughly one person killed for every 73 Palestinians in Gaza, whose population is about 2.2 million. The figures provided by the Gazan health ministry do not distinguish between civilians and combatants. In addition to bearing the risk of being killed in strikes or fighting, Palestinians are living with the growing specter of famine and disease. The health ministry has said infants have died from dehydration and malnutrition in recent days.
Persons: Israel, , , Biden, CBS’s, Adhanom Ghebreyesus Organizations: Hamas, World Health Organization Locations: Gaza, Israel, ” Israel, U.S, Jerusalem
Previous estimates by the World Obesity Federation suggested that there would be 1 billion people living with obesity by 2030, but that number was already surpassed in 2022, Ezzati said. The analysis focused on rates of underweight and obesity, both forms of malnutrition that are detrimental to people’s health. Obesity rates among children and adolescents worldwide increased fourfold from 1990 to 2022, while obesity rates among adults more than doubled. Obesity rates are now higher than rates of underweight in two-thirds of the world’s countries, according to the analysis. These countries now have higher obesity rates than those of many wealthy industrialized countries, according to the analysis.
Persons: Majid Ezzati, Ezzati, “ We’ve, , , Dr, Francesco Branca, ” Ezzati, we’ve, ” Branca, Branca, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, Sanjay Gupta Organizations: CNN, Imperial College London, World Obesity Federation, World Health Organization, WHO Department of Nutrition and Food, WHO, Get CNN, CNN Health, United Nations, Fund, Nutrition Locations: Polynesia, Micronesia, Caribbean, East, North Africa, Tonga, American Samoa, Nauru, United States, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, United Kingdom, France, South America, Mexico, Chile
Celal Gunes | Anadolu | Getty ImagesIsraeli strikes across Gaza killed at least 18 people overnight and into Sunday, according to medics and witnesses, as the United States said it would veto another draft U.N. cease-fire resolution. The U.S., Israel's top ally, instead hopes to broker a cease-fire agreement and hostage release between Israel and Hamas, and envisions a wider resolution of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. In a post on X, formerly Twitter, he said there are still about 200 patients in the hospital, including 20 who need urgent referrals to other hospitals. Israel says it has arrested over 100 suspected militants, including 20 who it says participated in Hamas' Oct. 7 attack on Israel, without providing evidence. He also said Israel has not presented specific evidence for its claims that Hamas is diverting U.N. aid.
Persons: Celal, Benjamin Netanyahu, Israel, Netanyahu, Khan Younis, Sayed, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, Ashraf al, David Satterfield Organizations: Cannon, Washington DC, Anadolu, Getty, Hamas, World Health Organization, Nasser Hospital, Associated Press, UN, WHO, Nasser, Gaza Health Ministry, Health Ministry, U.S . Middle Locations: Union, Gaza, Washington, United States, U.S, Israel, Israeli, Palestinian, Rafah, Gaza City
By Ricardo Brito and Anthony BoadleBRASILIA (Reuters) - Dengue fever has surged in Brazil's hot rainy season, forcing health authorities to take emergency measures and start mass vaccination against the mosquito-borne illness. In the first five weeks of this year 364,855 cases of infection have been reported, the Health Ministry said, four times more than dengue cases in the same period of 2023. The rapid spread of dengue has caused 40 confirmed deaths, the ministry said, and a further 265 are being investigated. The Health Ministry has set up an emergency center to coordinate operations against dengue across Brazil. Dengue fever symptoms include a high fever, headache, vomiting, muscle and joint pains, and an itching skin rash.
Persons: Ricardo Brito, Anthony Boadle BRASILIA, Qdenga, Tedros Adhanom, Anthony Boadle, Angus MacSwan Organizations: Reuters, Health Ministry, Federal, Army, Brazilian Air Force, World Health Organization, WHO, El Locations: Brazil, Minas Gerais, Brasilia, Brasilia ., Rio de Janeiro, Europe, America
WHO Chief Breaks Down Describing 'Hellish' Gaza Conditions
  + stars: | 2024-01-25 | by ( Jan. | At P.M. | ) www.usnews.com   time to read: +2 min
GENEVA (Reuters) - The head of the World Health Organization called for a ceasefire and a "true solution" to the Israel-Palestinian conflict in an emotional plea to the global health body's governing body on Thursday where he described conditions in Gaza as "hellish". "I'm a true believer because of my own experience that war doesn't bring solution, except more war, more hatred, more agony, more destruction. So let's choose peace and resolve this issue politically," Tedros told the WHO Executive Board in Geneva during a discussion about the Gaza health emergency. In the same address, Tedros warned that more people in Gaza would die of starvation and disease. "If you add all that, I think it's not easy to understand how hellish the situation is," he said.
Persons: Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, let's, Tedros, Israel, Meirav Eilon Shahar, Cecile Mantovani, Emma Farge, Jonathan Oatis Organizations: World Health, WHO, Reuters Locations: GENEVA, Israel, Gaza, Eritrea, Geneva
CNN —Medical facilities in Khan Younis in southern Gaza have been battered amid an Israeli assault in the area Monday, Palestinian health officials said, as the number of people killed in Israel’s siege on Gaza continues to rise. Dozens of people have been killed and wounded in the latest offensive in western Khan Younis, according to the Hamas-controlled health ministry in Gaza. Medical facilities including the Nasser Medical Complex, Al Amal Hospital and the Palestine Red Crescent Society headquarters are located in the area. The Nasser Medical Complex is receiving more serious injuries than it can accommodate, the health ministry said, adding that intensive care units are currently at capacity. Ahmed Naseem, a resident of Al-Amal neighborhood in Khan Younis, told CNN Monday that “intense” shelling of the area started in the early hours of Monday.
Persons: Khan Younis, ” Ahmad Al Moghrabi, , Monday, Al, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, , Amal, Khair, , Khan Younis –, ” OCHA, Kamal Adwan, Ahmed Naseem, ” Nassem Organizations: CNN —, Nasser, Al Amal Hospital, Palestine Red Crescent Society, IDF, CNN, Red Crescent Society, Amal, Al, WHO, – Al Aqsa Martyrs Hospital, Health Ministry Locations: Khan, Gaza, Palestine, Amal, Al, – Al Aqsa, Deir El, Nasser,
"The situation is getting worse by the hour," Richard Peeperkorn, WHO representative in Gaza, told reporters via video link. "There's intensified bombing going on all around, including here in the southern areas, Khan Younis and even in Rafah." Thomas White, Director of Affairs at the U.N. Palestinian agency in Gaza, said a population of more than 600,000 had been ordered to move to escape bombardment. The WHO's Peeperkorn said the agency had complied with an Israeli order to remove supplies from warehouses in Khan Younis. Reporting by Emma Farge and Gabrielle Tétraut-Farber; Editing by Rachel More and Janet LawrenceOur Standards: The Thomson Reuters Trust Principles.
Persons: Fadi Shana, Khan Younis, Richard Peeperkorn, There's, Peeperkorn, Thomas White, White, James Elder, I've, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, Israel, Emma Farge, Gabrielle Tétraut, Farber, Rachel More, Janet Lawrence Organizations: Hamas, REUTERS, WHO, Health Organization, United Nations, UNICEF, Thomson Locations: Israel, Palestinian, Rafah, Gaza, GENEVA, ., Cairo, Khan
Smoke rises above Gaza, amid the ongoing conflict between Israel and the Palestinian Islamist group Hamas, as seen from southern Israel, December 4, 2023. "We want to empower the WHO and call for the Israeli side not to target the medical sector. We want to allow for fresh medical supplies," he told Reuters, adding that his diplomatic mission was drafting a motion to be reviewed by the board. Israel has accused Hamas of using ordinary Gazans as human shields by placing command centres and weapons inside hospitals and other civilian buildings. The WHO's governing board is made up of 34 members and typically meets every January to fix the agenda for its annual assembly.
Persons: Athit, Tedros Adhanom, Ibrahim Khraishi, Benjamin Netanyahu, Emma Farge, Matthias Williams, Alison Williams Organizations: Hamas, REUTERS, GENEVA, Health, West Bank, WHO, Qatari, Reuters, Thomson Locations: Gaza, Israel, Palestinian, Gaza Qatar, Geneva, United States, France, China, Japan
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