United Nations, United States – AFP The number of children worldwide who died before age five reached a record low in 2022, the United Nations said in a report published Tuesday, as for the first time fewer than five million died. According to the estimate, 4.9 million children died before their fifth birthday in 2022, […]
GENEVA (AA) – The World Health Organization has said that it led two life-saving missions to transfer 32 critical patients, including two children, from Nasser Medical Complex in southern Gaza on February 18-19. “The high-risk missions were conducted in close partnership with the Palestine Red Crescent Society (PRCS) and the United Natio...
Jenin, Palestinian Territories — AFP A climate of fear pervades a hospital in the occupied West Bank city of Jenin, where patients and doctors are reeling from last month’s deadly raid by Israeli agents disguised as medics. At the rehabilitation ward at Jenin’s Ibn Sina hospital, two patients recalled hearing the screams of a...
ROME (AA) – The World Food Program must have “security guarantees” to bring food supplies into Gaza to prevent the famine that threatens more than 2 million people in the enclave, its executive director has said. “The WFP has food supplies at the border and will be able to scale up to feed 2.2 million […]
ATHENS (AA) – The World Health Organization (WHO) is deeply concerned about the situation in and around the Nasser hospital in Gaza, which has been surrounded by Israeli forces. “We’re deeply concerned about the safety of patients and health personnel due to the intensifying hostilities in the vicinity of the hospital. We repeat: h...
GENEVA (AA) – The World Health Organization (WHO) has documented 721 attacks by Israel on healthcare in the occupied Palestinian territories since October 7. To a question at a UN press conference, Tarik Jasarevic, a WHO spokesman, said some 357 of the attacks were carried out in the Gaza Strip in which 645 people were […]
GENEVA (AA) – More than 8,000 people in the Gaza Strip need medical evacuation and the vast majority of them have war-related injuries, the World Health Organization (WHO) said on Friday. “Medical referrals for critically injured and sick patients outside Gaza remain ad hoc and insufficient. An orderly, safe and sustained transfer ...
Geneva, Switzerland – – AFP The World Health Organization has said that the row over funding for the UN’s Palestinian refugee agency was distracting from the humanitarian disaster in Gaza. It urged governments to keep backing UNRWA, which has seen several key donors suspend funding over Israel’s accusations that several...
GAZA CITY(AA) – Hamas has condemned Israel’s campaign against UN institutions, calling it an effort to prevent them from providing relief to people in Gaza. “The latest is the hollow accusation against the World Health Organization of what Israel called collusion with the Hamas movement, by repeating the false claim about the movem...
DUBAI, UAE (AA) – The United Arab Emirates (UAE) has pledged $10 million for the ailing health sector in the Gaza Strip amid the nightmarish conditions faced by the besieged Palestinian enclave. “The Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum Global Initiatives (MBRGI) pledged a contribution of around AED 37 million (US $10 million) in support of [&...