US EditionWHO Says Gaza Facilities Attacked as Israel Expands Operations
DEIR AL BALAH, GAZA STRIP, PALESTINIAN TERRITORIES, JUL 21 – Israeli military attacks damaged WHO staff housing and warehouse in Deir al Balah, detaining several staff and limiting critical health operations amid Gaza's escalating humanitarian crisis.
- In central Gaza, the World Health Organization said its staff residence was attacked three times and its main warehouse destroyed, crippling WHO operations.
- Amid looming ground operations, residents faced an evacuation order affecting 50,000–80,000, forcing families to flee south in Gaza.
- Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, WHO Director-General, said male staff and family were handcuffed, stripped, interrogated, and two staff and two family members detained, with 32 evacuated to the WHO office.
- Earlier, countries including Britain, France and Australia called the war `must end now`, also denouncing the aid delivery model as `dangerous, fuels instability and deprives Gazans of human dignity`.
- With operations compromised, WHO urgently calls on Member States to help sustain medical supply flows into Gaza.
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Israel's attack on the WHO's main warehouse in Gaza is paralyzing emergency aid and shocking the world. - The IDF knew exactly what they were doing. They had been given the coordinates to protect the inviolable premises of the UN - not to fire on them, says UN spokesman Stéphane Dujarric.
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