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Gaza –
The World Health Organization (WHO) warns that Gaza residents are in grave danger. Acute hunger and despair hit the Palestinian region.
Reported by AFP, Thursday (28/12/2023), WHO said it sent supplies to two hospitals on Tuesday – one in the north and one in the south – with 21 of the 36 hospitals in the Gaza Strip no longer functioning at all.
WHO Chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus called on the international community to take urgent steps to alleviate the grave danger facing Gaza’s population and jeopardize the ability of humanitarian workers to help people who are seriously injured, acutely hungry and at serious risk of disease.
“The need for food continues to increase throughout the Gaza Strip, while hungry people again stopped our convoy today in the hope of finding food,” the WHO statement said.
“WHO’s ability to supply medicines, medical equipment and fuel to hospitals is increasingly limited by the hunger and desperation of people on their way to, and within, the hospitals we reach,” the statement continued.
Apart from that, Tedros said that he hoped that more food would arrive throughout Gaza. According to him, the continuity of WHO operations really depends on that.
“The safety of our staff and the continuity of operations depend on more food arriving across Gaza in the near future,” Tedros said.
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