Conditions at Gaza hospitals 'beyond description', WHO says

Al-Hams warns of worsening catastrophic health situation in Gaza

The director of field hospitals in the Gaza Strip, Dr. Marwan Al-Hams, warned of the worsening humanitarian and health catastrophe in the Strip.

UN chief 'deeply alarmed' by Israeli strike on Al-Ahli hospital in Gaza

By Olivia Le Poidevin

Since Sunday, Al Ahli Hospital has been part of the long list of medical centres in Gaza whose invasion or bombing by the Israeli army has ended up — by mere repetition — in a footnote to the war that began in October 2023. Since then, and until last January, the World Health Organization (WHO), which belongs to the UN, has counted more than 654 attacks on health care facilities. Of the 36 hospitals in Gaza, virtually all are damaged or have som…

Conditions at Gaza hospitals 'beyond description', WHO says

The agency says it is seeing "attack after attack" and supply shortages following an Israeli strike on al-Ahli hospital.

WHO calls for ceasefire and end to Israeli blockade against Gaza

WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, on its X account, criticized the most recent Israeli airstrike on the Baptist Hospital in Gaza City. This medical center is out of service after the evacuation order and the airstrike, he denounced. Adhanom Ghebreyesus revealed that “A child died due to disruption of care.” He stated that the raid destroyed the emergency room, the laboratory, the X-ray machines, and the pharmacy. The health offici…

Israeli attack puts Gaza City hospital out of service

A Gaza City hospital has been put out of action by an Israeli strike at the weekend, while a child patient with reported head trauma died while being evacuated, the UN World Health Organization (WHO) said on Monday.