The organization canceled another medical aid mission for security reasons. Israeli bombings continue to kill dozens of people in Gaza.
The World Health Organization canceled this Wednesday and another planned medical aid mission in Gaza for security reasons. This is how the director general of the WHO reported it.
The last mission of the WHO, The teams undertook a variety of high-risk missions to deliver supplies to hospitals in northern and southern Gaza, where intense hostilities were taking place and which were faced with an overload of patients and overcrowded conditions due to displaced people. the conflict that seek refuge.
The statement from the World Health Organization
He Director General of the World Health Organization, Tedros Adhanom GhebreyesusHe said it was the sixth mission to northern Gaza canceled by UN agency because the visit requests had not been approved nor had security guarantees been given since the last one, on December 26.
“Intense shelling, movement restrictions, fuel shortages and communications disruption make it impossible for WHO and our partners to reach those in need,” he told a virtual news conference in Geneva. “We ask Israel to approve WHO requests and other partners to deliver humanitarian aid.
Source: Ambito
