WHO condemns Israel’s Gaza evacuation order as ‘death sentence’ for sick, injured

Israel-Hamas war: Rafah crossing to reopen; WHO warns Gaza evacuation could be ‘death sentence’ for 2,000 patients

Egypt is set to reopen the Rafah crossing into Gaza this morning to allow foreign citizens and others to evacuate ahead of an expected Israeli ground offensive.

Israel’s hospital evacuation order in Gaza is tantamount to a ‘death sentence’, says World Health Organization

‘Forcing more than 2,000 patients to relocate to southern Gaza, where health facilities are already running at maximum capacity and unable to absorb a dramatic rise in the number of patients, could be tantamount to a death sentence,’ says the World Health Organization. The post WHO warns of ‘humanitarian catastrophe’ in Gaza appeared first on Daily Maverick.

Gaza exodus a ‘death sentence’ for 2,000 Palestinians in hospital, says WHO

The United Nations has already warned that water has run out and hospitals will run out of generator fuel within two days

Israel renews evacuation order for residents of Northern Gaza

On Sunday, the Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) reinstated evacuation orders urging residents of Northern Gaza to flee to the South to allow for military operations in the area. The IDF Sunday gave a two-hour window within which Israeli military would refrain from conducting any operations in the Salah Al-Din route to allow for evacuation to the South. The IDF previously issued similar warnings, which were condemned by the World Health Organization …

Water running out in Gaza as UN warns of ‘death sentence’ to hospital patients

“The humanitarian situation in Gaza, already critical, is fast becoming untenable,” United Nations emergency relief coordinator Martin Griffiths said

The World Health Organization (WHO) has sharply criticized calls by Israeli forces to evacuate more than 2,000 patients from hospitals in the northern Gaza Strip, warning that doing so would be “tantamount to the death penalty” for these people.