WHO to evacuate 1,000 Gazan women, children for urgent medical care

Home World WHO to evacuate 1,000 Gazan women, children for urgent medical care 21-10-2024 12:32 PM Ammon News - Up to 1,000 women and children needing medical care will shortly be evacuated from Gaza to Europe, the head of the World Health Organization’s (WHO) Europe branch said in comments published on Monday. Israel, which is besieging the war-devastated Palestinian territory, “is committed to 1,000 more medical evacuations within the next months to the European Union,” Hans Kluge said in an interview with AFP. He said the evacuations would be facilitated by the WHO the United Nations’ health agency and the European countries involved. UN investigators have said that Israel was deliberately targeting health facilities in Gaza, and killing and torturing medical personnel there, accusing the country of “crimes against humanity.” Rik Peeperkorn, WHO representative in the occupied Palestinian territories, said in May that around 10,000 people needed evacuating from Gaza for urgent medical care. The WHO Europe has already facilitated 600 medical evacuations from Gaza to seven European countries since the latest war began there in October 2023.

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WHO to evacuate 1,000 Gazan women, children for urgent medical care

21-10-2024 12:32 PM

Ammon News - Up to 1,000 women and children needing medical care will shortly be evacuated from Gaza to Europe, the head of the World Health Organization’s (WHO) Europe branch said in comments published on Monday.

Israel, which is besieging the war-devastated Palestinian territory, “is committed to 1,000 more medical evacuations within the next months to the European Union,” Hans Kluge said in an interview with AFP.

He said the evacuations would be facilitated by the WHO the United Nations’ health agency and the European countries involved.

UN investigators have said that Israel was deliberately targeting health facilities in Gaza, and killing and torturing medical personnel there, accusing the country of “crimes against humanity.”

Rik Peeperkorn, WHO representative in the occupied Palestinian territories, said in May that around 10,000 people needed evacuating from Gaza for urgent medical care.

The WHO Europe has already facilitated 600 medical evacuations from Gaza to seven European countries since the latest war began there in October 2023.

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