The Director-General of the World Health Organization, Tedros Ghebreyesus, said that the situation in the Gaza Strip is “one of the worst and most difficult in the world,” and according to UN reports, it is “like the end of the world and getting worse day by day.”

In a session held as part of the World Innovation Summit for Health (WIHS), Ghebreyesus pointed out that 80 percent of Gaza’s residents suffer from continuous evacuations in the absence of safe places to avoid the ongoing Israeli aggression.

He stressed the increasing targeting of aid workers and the health sector in Gaza and the West Bank, as well as elsewhere in the world, warning that the World Health Organization has issued a report and recommendations on the need to protect health facilities, and not to be the target of bombing and destruction.

He added that 84 percent of health facilities in the Gaza Strip are out of service and have been completely destroyed, while the rest are still partially operational and the needs for them are increasing day by day, which represents collective punishment there.