Gaza population in ‘grave peril,’ says WHO

GENEVA, Switzerland — The population of Gaza is in “grave peril”, warns the head of the World Health Organization, citing acute hunger and desperation throughout the war-torn Palestinian territory.

The WHO said it delivered supplies to two hospitals on Tuesday, with only 15 out of 36 hospitals in the Gaza Strip functioning with any capacity at all.

WHO chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus called on the international community to take “urgent steps to alleviate the grave peril facing the population of Gaza and jeopardizing the ability of humanitarian workers to help people with terrible injuries, acute hunger, and at severe risk of disease.”

In a statement, the WHO says its staff reported that “hungry people again stopped our convoys today in the hope of finding food”.

“WHO’s ability to supply medicines, medical supplies, and fuel to hospitals is being increasingly constrained by the hunger and desperation of people en route to, and within, hospitals we reach.”

The bloodiest-ever Gaza war erupted when thousands of Hamas terrorists attacked southern Israel on October 7 and killed about 1,200 people, mostly civilians in their homes including entire families, and people at an outdoors music festival, amid widespread brutalities.

Terrorists also took about 240 hostages, of whom 129 remain inside Gaza, according to Israel, in the worst mass terror attack in the country’s history.