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...
JERUSALEM (AA) — Tel Aviv is preparing to end its military ground operation in the Gaza Strip as part of the third stage of its war in the coming weeks, the Israeli Public Broadcasting Corporation has reported. The broadcaster quoted unnamed sources as saying that the Israeli army “is preparing to move to the third […]
ANKARA (AA) – The World Health Organization (WHO) has said only four hospitals are operating in northern Gaza, providing very limited care. WHO and UN mission to north Gaza found that Al-Ahli Arab Hospital is a “shell” of its former self due to lack of fuel, staff and supplies, WHO chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said […]
GENEVA (AA) – The humanitarian crisis in Sudan is “worsening” as it faces the “world’s largest displacement crisis,” the World Health Organization (WHO) representative in the country has said. In the past eight months, the fighting has spread from Khartoum to several states across the country, Mohammad Taufiq Mashal told a UN press briefing in...
Geneva, Switzerland — AFP Gaza’s health system is on its knees and cannot afford to lose another ambulance or a single hospital bed more, the World Health Organization has warned. “The situation is getting more and more horrible by the day… beyond belief, literally,” WHO spokesman Christian Lindmeier told a press ...
GENEVA (AA) – On average one child is killed every 10 minutes in Gaza, a World Health Organization (WHO) representative said on Tuesday, calling the situation “humanity’s darkest hour.” “We are talking almost about 16,000 people killed, its more than 60% (are) women and children, and more than 42,000 people injure...
ISTANBUL (AA) – The situation of the health sector in Gaza is “unimaginable,” the head of the World Health Organization (WHO) has warned. “The reports of ongoing hostilities and heavy bombardment in Gaza are petrifying,” Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus wrote on X. “Yesterday (Saturday) our team visited Nassar Medical Hospital in the south. It...
