Fourteen-year-old Mohammed Wael Helles has been waiting for surgery for nearly two months after suffering a severe spinal injury in an Israeli airstrike. He is one of thousands awaiting urgent treatment in Gaza's crumbling healthcare system.
Helles was a bright...
The Palestinian Ministry of Health stated that the Gaza Strip has the highest rate of child amputations per capita in the world. In a statement released Sunday, the ministry added that more than 5,000 children in Gaza underwent amputations...
The World Health Organization (WHO) and the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) warned of the deteriorating conditions of thousands of wounded Palestinians due to the ongoing siege and closure of crossings. The Palestinian Ministry...
Humanitarian aid organizations said on Tuesday that aid reaching Gaza is woefully inadequate as hunger persists, winter approaches, and old tents begin to deteriorate, nearly four weeks after a ceasefire ended a devastating two-year Israeli offensive.
The ceasefire was supposed...
The World Health Organization (WHO) announced on Wednesday that 421 people, including 113 children, died from malnutrition in 2025.
In a statement, the organization affirmed its commitment to supporting ongoing efforts to save lives and expand its work in screening...
The World Health Organization (WHO) said on Tuesday that more than 15,600 patients in the Gaza Strip need urgent medical evacuation for treatment outside the Strip, given the severe deterioration of the health system after two years of war.
In...
The Director-General of the World Health Organization, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, said on Thursday that "our teams stand ready to scale up our work to meet the urgent health needs of Palestinian patients across the Gaza Strip and support the...
A new World Health Organization report reveals that many of those injured in Gaza will require care and rehabilitation support for years to come. Nearly 42,000 people in the Gaza Strip have suffered life-changing injuries as a result of...
The World Health Organization revealed in a report issued in March of this year that "more than 60% of Gaza's hospitals are unable to receive complicated births, amid a severe shortage of medical staff and basic equipment such as...
World Health Organization Director General Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus condemned the Israeli attack that targeted the primary healthcare center of the Palestinian Medical Relief Society PMRS in Gaza City on Monday.
Ghebreyesus said in a post on his X platform...
