WHO says evacuating Gaza patients effectively 'death sentence'

The World Health Organization said that forcing thousands of hospital patients to evacuate to already overflowing hospitals in the southern Gaza Strip could be 'tantamount to a death sentence'.

Palestinian women with their children fleeing from their homes following Israeli air strikes rush along a street in Gaza City on Oct. 11, 2023. At least 30 people have been killed and hundreds wounded as Israel pounded the Gaza Strip with hundreds of air strikes overnight, a Hamas government official said on October 11. Israel declared war on Hamas on October 8 following a shock land, air and sea assault by the Gaza-based Islamists.

"The forced evacuation of patients and health workers will further worsen the current humanitarian and public health catastrophe." They and others "all face imminent deterioration of their condition or death if they are forced to move and are cut off from life-saving medical attention while being evacuated", the WHO said.

In Gaza, health officials said more than 2,200 people had been killed. As on the Israeli side, most of them were civilians. Natural and man-made disasters have caused $3.8 trillion in crop and livestock loses over 30 years, the UN's Food and Agricultural...

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