A new analysis by the World Health Organization (WHO) has found that at least a quarter of those injured Palestinians in the Gaza war – an estimated 22,500 – suffer life-changing injuries that require rehabilitation services now and for...
A senior WHO official said Thursday the organization had received a "tentative pledge of temporary truces in designated humanitarian areas" in the war in the Gaza Strip to allow a polio vaccination campaign.
The United Nations is preparing to vaccinate...
The Director-General of the World Health Organization (WHO), Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, said on Tuesday that there is no safe place in Gaza, indicating that recent reports about Israeli evacuation orders in Gaza City are hindering the treatment of the...
Some Gazans are forced to drink sewage and eat animal feed, a World Health Organization high-ranking official said on Tuesday, calling for immediate increased aid access to the besieged enclave.
Hanan Balkhi, WHO Regional Director for the Eastern Mediterranean, warned...
Since the outbreak of the war in Gaza on October 7, at least 32 people have died of malnutrition, many of them children, according to Hamas government's press office.
The World Health Organization said more than four out of five...
The World Health Organization (WHO) announced that much-needed medical evacuations from the Gaza Strip, which were originally limited, stopped completely after the Israeli occupation attack Rafah about three weeks ago.
Margaret Harris, a spokeswoman for the World Health Organization, said...
The World Health Organization (WHO) has expressed deep concern that a large-scale military operation in Rafah could lead to a bloodbath; more than 1.2 million people have sought refuge in the area, many of whom cannot move elsewhere.
The organization...
A World Health Organization official who recently returned from the Gaza Strip said the health care system is rapidly deteriorating, and more staff, supplies and access are urgently needed.
“I’ve seen the health care system collapsing before my eyes,” Sean...
The head of the World Health Organization said he deplored the strikes on the Palestine Red Crescent Society headquarters in Gaza, branding them “unconscionable”.
WHO chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said health must never be a target during conflicts, adding that...
A World Health Organization (WHO) official in Gaza announced on Tuesday that the situation in the Strip is getting worse every hour as Israel intensifies its bombing of the south around the cities of Khan Yunis and Rafah.
“The situation...
