Geneva, Switzerland – AFP The World Health Organization (WHO) on Wednesday called for Hamas to provide proof of life of the prisoners it is holding and release them all on health grounds. The WHO said the International Committee of the Red Cross should be allowed immediate medical access to ascertain their health status, while it [&helli...
GENEVA (AA) – While limited aid delivery began last weekend to the blockaded Gaza Strip, there are no security guarantees for getting aid to hospitals in the northern part of the strip, the World Health Organization has warned. Underlining the “huge risk” for people delivering relief, Rick Brennan, WHO regional emergencies di...
ATHENS (AA) – The head of the World Health Organization (WHO) has called for “sustained” access for health aid in the Gaza Strip. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said on X that the WHO has called for the safe passage of additional aid convoys across the enclave, protection of all humanitarian workers and sustained access to health […]
Geneva, Switzerland – AFP The World Health Organization called Thursday for a daily flow of humanitarian aid into the Gaza Strip beyond the first convoy readying near the border — including fuel to keep hospitals running. Egypt’s state-linked television Al Qahera News reported that the Rafah border crossing between Egypt and ...
Paris, France – OCTOBER 18, 2023 09:54:06 GMT – AFP A strike on a Gaza hospital compound which health officials there said killed hundreds has provoked outrage and condemnation from around the world, with protests on the streets of Amman, Tunis, Beirut and Tehran. Hamas, which runs the territory, accused Israel of being behind the ...
Cairo, Egypt – AFP The World Health Organization on Monday warned there were only “24 hours of water, electricity and fuel left” in the Gaza Strip before “a real catastrophe” sets in. WHO Regional Director for the Eastern Mediterranean Ahmed Al-Mandhari said the bombarded, besieged territory must be allowed to rec...
GENEVA (AA) – While no humanitarian supplies have been allowed into Gaza since October 7, two million people across Gaza are in danger of running out of water, the UN agency for Palestinian refugees has said. “It has become a matter of life and death. It is a must; fuel needs to be delivered now […]
GENEVA (AA) – Palestinian civilians have “no safe place left to go” as violence has intensified, the World Health Organization has said. “With ongoing airstrikes, civilians have no safe place left to go. The Palestinian Ministry of Health has informed WHO that it is impossible to evacuate vulnerable hospital patients fr...
Geneva, Switzerland – – AFP The World Health Organization has called for a humanitarian corridor to be established into and out of the Gaza Strip, which has been placed under total siege by Israel. Israel has cut off the water supply, food, electricity and other essential supplies as it bombed targets in the crowded Palestinian [&h...
ISLAMABAD (AA) – At least 15 people were killed and over 100 wounded in a series of earthquakes that hit the northwestern part of Afghanistan on Saturday, officials said, fearing the death toll might go up. Afghanistan Disaster Management Authority’s spokesman Mullah Janan Saiq said the death toll could further rise, adding the earthquakes cau...
