The Executive Director of the World Health Organization's Health Emergencies Programme has called for an immediate ceasefire in Gaza.
The Executive Director of the World Health Organization's Health Emergencies Programme has called for an immediate ceasefire in Gaza so that"unhindered, unfettered humanitarian relief" can enter the besieged Palestinian enclave.
"What’s unfolding right now in Gaza is a humanitarian and health catastrophe," Dr Ryan told Prime Time."The situation is beyond belief." In the wake of the unprecedented murderous attacks into southern Israel by Hamas, the group which controls Gaza, on October 7, Israel cut electricity, water and fuel to Gaza.Two-thirds of primary health care centers are now closed, and many hospitals are out of action, with critical medical supplies, like insulin and anesthetics, also running low, Dr Ryan said.
Following orders from the Israeli military for people living in the area around Gaza City to evacuate to the south of the Wadi Gaza, a wetlands in the centre of the strip, hundreds of thousands of people are displaced and sheltering in hospitals and other facilities. Dr Ryan said WHO teams on the ground report to him that the"smell of death in the place is just unreal. It's very hard to describe the reality for the civilians on the ground in Gaza. Very, very hard to put it into words."
Dr Ryan’s warnings come as the UN's humanitarian chief has also warned that aid"is barely trickling" into Gaza as the world is"failing to meet the bare entitlements of a part of humanity".
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