The situation in Gaza is “out of control” due to the lack of immediate humanitarian aid, the director general of the World Health Organization (WHO) said this Wednesday on the social network X (formerly Twitter).
“Every second we wait to provide medical aid, we lose lives,” lamented Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, highlighting that medical products were blocked for four days on the border between Egypt and Gaza.
The situation in #Loop he’s out of control.
Every second we wait for medical help, we lose lives.
for 4 days @WHO Supplies have been stuck at the border.
We need immediate access to begin delivering life-saving supplies.
We need violence to stop everywhere.
– Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus (@DrTedros) October 18, 2023
“We need immediate access to start supplying these vital products,” he insisted, calling for the opening of the Rafah border post.
For days, tons of aid has been blocked in the Egyptian Sinai desert, while Rafah is closed on the Palestinian side after four attacks this week.
Israel and Hamas have been at war since October 7, when agents of the Palestinian group carried out an unprecedented incursion into Israeli territory and killed more than 1,400 people, according to authorities in Tel Aviv.
Israel responded with bombings against the Gaza Strip that killed at least three thousand people, according to Palestinian authorities in the enclave.
12,500 injuries have also been reported in Gaza and more than 4,200 injuries in Israel.
In addition to the bombings, Israel surrounded and suspended supplies to the Gaza Strip, a small territory where 2.3 million people live and which has been controlled by Hamas since 2007.
Source: TSF
