photon game WHO chief: Conditions in north Gaza hospital ‘appalling’

FILE PHOTO: WHO director-general Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus (Agence France-Presse)

GENEVA, Switzerland — The World Health Organization (WHO) said Monday a humanitarian team finally reached one of northern Gaza’s only functioning hospitals at the weekend to deliver fuel, food, and medicines and found “appalling” conditions.

Kamal Adwan Hospital is located in Beit Lahia, a city at the center of an intense Israeli military operation aimed at preventing Hamas from regrouping in northern Gaza.

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WHO chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said on X that after multiple attempts, the United Nations health agency and partners reached the facility “two days ago, amid hostilities and explosions in the vicinity of the hospital during the mission”.

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The team, he said, had “delivered 5,000 litres of fuel, food and medicines, and transferred three patients and six companions to Al-Shifa”, the Palestinian territory’s main hospital.

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Kamal Adwan is one of the last operational medical facilities in the north of the war-ravaged territory, with the WHO warning earlier this month that it was operating at a “minimum” level.

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The agency said efforts to deliver desperately needed supplies have been repeatedly hampered.

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A member of the Palestinian Authority (PA) security forces fires tear gas towards a protest against their security operation, in Jenin in the Israel-occupied West Bank, on December 16, 2024. – For more than a week, the northern West Bank city of Jenin has seen intense violence, after the PA, which coordinates security matters with Israel, had arrested several militants. (Photo by Jaafar ASHTIYEH / Agence France-Presse)

Earlier this month, it said a mission reached the hospital on November 30 after weeks of unsuccessful attempts, bringing aid and an international emergency team, including surgeons and other specialists.

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But days later, that team was among large numbers who fled the hospital amid heavy hostilities around the facility.

“This has left the hospital without specialised personnel for surgical and maternal care,” Tedros warned, adding that the attacks have resulted in further damage to the facility and its oxygen and electricity supplies.

“The conditions in the hospital are simply appalling,” he said.

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“We urge for the protection of health care and for this hell to stop! Ceasefire!”

The war was sparked by Hamas’s October 7, 2023, attack on Israel that resulted in the deaths of 1,208 people, mostly civilians, according to an Agence France-Presse tally of Israeli official figures.

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Since then, Israel’s retaliatory offensive has killed more than 45,000 people in Gaza, a majority of them civilians, according to figures from the Hamas-run territory’s health ministry that the UN considers reliable.

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