DIRECTOR General of the World Health Organization (WHO) Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said he was very concerned regarding reports of plans for an Israeli ground attack on Rafah.
He stressed that increasing violence in densely populated areas would lead to more deaths and suffering, especially as health facilities are critical amid the conflict.
“I am deeply concerned by reports regarding Israeli plans to resume ground attacks on Rafah,” Ghebreyesus wrote in X.
“1.2 million people in Rafah have no safe place to live,” he added.
Highlighting the lack of fully functional and safe health facilities accessible to refugees in Gaza, Ghebreyesus said people were “too fragile, hungry and sick” to move elsewhere.
“The humanitarian disaster cannot be allowed to worsen,” he stressed.
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Israel has launched deadly military attacks on the Gaza Strip since a cross-border attack by Hamas on October 7 that killed 1,163 people.
More than 31,500 Palestinians, mostly women and children, have died in Gaza, and 73,546 others have been injured due to mass destruction and shortages of basic necessities.
Israel’s war has forced 85% of Gaza’s population to flee amid a blockade that has disabled most food, clean water and medicine, while 60% of the enclave’s infrastructure has been damaged or destroyed, according to the UN. (Anadolu/Z-3)
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