The World Health Organization on Thursday slammed the lack of safety guarantees for bringing humanitarian aid into the Gaza Strip, saying it was near impossible to get medical supplies to hospitals.
A man reacts as he holds the remains of his mother wrapped in a blanket amid the rubble of building destroyed in an Israeli strike on the Bureij refugee camp in the central Gaza Strip on Nov. 2, 2023, as battles between Israel and the Palestinian Hamas movement continue.GENEVA, Switzerland —
"WHO will do everything we can to ensure that all people in Gaza have access to life-saving health and humanitarian services," WHO chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus told a press conference.The WHO's emergencies director Michael Ryan said the basic safety of staff on the ground in Gaza could not be guaranteed at the moment -- something he branded "unconscionable".
Getting medical supplies to where they are needed "has not been facilitated, that has not been supported; in fact, if anything, quite the opposite". "We know what's going on above the ground... we have no information on what may be happening elsewhere or underneath these facilities," said Ryan. More than 40 Chinese warplanes were detected around Taiwan in a day, the self-ruled island's defense ministry said on We...
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