2023-12-16 15:45:00
Original title: WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus once once more calls for a ceasefire in the Gaza Strip
On December 15, World Health Organization Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus attended a press conference in Geneva, Switzerland.Photo by Xinhua News Agency reporter Lian Yi
Xinhua News Agency, Geneva, December 16 (Reporter Zeng Yan) On the 15th, World Health Organization Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus reiterated his call for an immediate ceasefire between Palestine and Israel in the Gaza Strip at the annual press conference hosted by the United Nations Correspondents’ Association in Geneva.
Tedros said that the WHO Executive Board’s special meeting on the health situation in the occupied Palestinian territories recently passed a resolution calling for the immediate, continuous and unhindered delivery of humanitarian relief supplies and the dispatch of medical workers to Gaza. The resolution also calls on the Director-General to continue reporting on the impact of the current Palestinian-Israeli conflict on public health and mental health.
On December 15, World Health Organization Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus (centre) attended a press conference in Geneva, Switzerland.Photo by Xinhua News Agency reporter Lian Yi
He said that these tasks are almost impossible to accomplish under the current circumstances and no one, including humanitarian and medical workers, is safe in the Gaza Strip. “The only solution is an immediate ceasefire.”
On December 15, World Health Organization Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus (second from right) attended a press conference in Geneva, Switzerland.Photo by Xinhua News Agency reporter Lian Yi
Tedros said that this year, more than 1,200 attacks on medical workers, patients, hospitals, clinics and ambulances have been recorded globally, resulting in nearly 700 deaths and more than 1,100 injuries.
Tedros also expressed deep regret for the recent failure of the United Nations Security Council to pass a draft resolution on a ceasefire between Palestine and Israel. “There is no peace without a ceasefire, and there is no health without peace,” he said.
This is the scene of a press conference filmed in Geneva, Switzerland on December 15.Photo by Xinhua News Agency reporter Lian Yi
The health department in the Gaza Strip issued a statement on the 14th saying that since the outbreak of a new round of Palestinian-Israeli conflict on October 7, Israeli military operations have killed more than 18,700 Palestinians in the Gaza Strip and injured more than 50,000 others.
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