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 [&...
ATHENS (AA) – Three major UN agencies involved in relief works in Gaza have called for faster and safer aid access to the besieged enclave via more supply routes. In a joint statement, UNICEF, the World Food Program (WFP) and the World Health Organization (WHO) said: “As the risk of famine grows, and more people […]
Palestinian Territories – AFP Israeli strikes killed dozens in Gaza overnight Thursday-Friday, sources on both sides said on the 98th day of the war on the Palestinian enclave. An AFP journalist reported strikes and artillery shelling hit areas between the southern cities of Khan Yunis and Rafah, which is crowded with people who fled fro...
GAZA, Palestine (AA) – A British doctor of Palestinian origin says that medical teams in the Gaza Strip are exhausted, dealing with large numbers of patients. “The medical staff (at the European Gaza Hospital in the city of Khan Younis) is very exhausted, and the emergency department always receives patients with difficult and complex ca...
Palestinian Territories – AFP Gaza’s health ministry on Sunday reported numerous deaths in overnight strikes on central Gaza’s Zawayda and the nearby Al-Mughazi refugee camp as Palestinians end a dark year with no end in sight to Israel’s deadliest military offensive. There has been no respite from Israel’s air ra...
