Geneva, Switzerland – AFP The World Health Organization on Wednesday said it will send more than one million polio vaccines to war-torn Gaza after the virus was detected in wastewater there. “WHO is sending more than 1 million polio vaccines which will be administered in the coming weeks,” the UN agency’s chief Tedros A...
The polio virus has been detected in wastewater across six locations in Gaza, sparking fears of an outbreak. The World Health Organization and local health ministries confirmed the presence of vaccine-derived poliovirus type 2 in sewage samples from Khan Younis and Deir al-Balah. Despite no current cases, the discovery has raised alarm about a...
LONDON (AA) – Norwegian Prime Minister Jonas Gahr Store has confirmed that the Nordic country will accept and treat injured Palestinians from the Gaza Strip, local media reported. Norway will participate in the international effort to help Palestinians who badly need hospital treatment, according to media outlet VG. The announcement come...
Geneva, Switzerland – AFP A daily “pause” the Israeli military declared in Gaza to facilitate aid flows has had no impact on deliveries of badly needed supplies, says the UN health agency. More than eight months of attacks by Israel have led to dire humanitarian conditions in the Palestinian territory and repeated UN warnings...
Geneva, Switzerland – AFP More than 8,000 children aged under five have been treated in the Gaza Strip for acute malnutrition since Israel launched its war on the region, the World Health Organization said on Wednesday. WHO chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said 28 of those children had died and a significant proportion of Gaza’s po...
GENEVA (AA/AFP) – Humanity now faces an 80 percent chance that Earth’s temperatures will at least temporarily exceed the key 1.5-degree Celsius mark during the next five years, the UN predicted Wednesday. The global mean near-surface temperature for each year between 2024 and 2028 is predicted to be between 1.1 C and 1.9 C higher [...
Geneva, Switzerland – – AFP Israel’s deadly military offensive in the erstwhile “safe zone” for internally displaced Palestinians sheltering in Rafah is already taking a dire health toll in southern Gaza. If it continues, “substantial” increases in deaths of the severely injured can be expected, a top ...
GENEVA (AA) – The World Health Organization has warned that the continued closure of the Rafah crossing and the lack of access to the Kerem Shalom crossing are “increasing the risk of shortages in medical supplies and preventing the rotation of emergency medical teams (EMTs) in Gaza.” “The last medical commodities enter...
The Palestinian Health Ministry reported that Israeli attacks in the past 24 hours killed 31 Palestinians and injured 56 others. The violence escalated as Israeli artillery struck a house in the Bureij refugee camp, leaving one dead and several wounded. Northern Gaza faces dire circumstances, with thousands of civilians isolated without access...
Geneva, Switzerland — AFP The availability of food in the Gaza Strip has very slightly improved, though the risk of famine in the besieged territory remains, the World Health Organization has said. “The food situation has a little bit improved. There’s a bit more food,” Rik Peeperkorn, the WHO representative in the Pale...
