The World Health Organization (WHO) denounced on Monday, July 21, “attacks” against the residence of its staff and its main warehouse in the city of Deir El-Balah on Monday, July 21, in the Gaza Strip, beaten by Israeli military operations.
“The WHO residence in Deir El-Balah, in the Gaza Strip, has been attacked three times today, as well as its main warehouse,” said Tedros Adanom Ghebreyesus, head of the UN Health Agency, in X, and added that “Israeli soldiers have entered the premises.”
A WHO member “is still detained”
In his social networks, he alerts the situation of “a staff member” held by Israel. “Two staff members and two family members were arrested. Three of them were released later, while a staff member is still detained,” he said. The WHO head “demands” his immediate release “, as well as” the protection of all his staff. “
Tedros Adhanom ghebreyesus specifies that “32 to whom personnel members and their families were evacuated to the WHO office as soon as access has become possible.”
“A high fire is not only necessary, but has been expected for a long time,” he wrote on his social networks.
This attack occurs when the UN said on Monday that it received “desperate messages that reported the famine” of some of its employees in the Gaza Strip in the war. In a message posted in X, the UN Agency for Palestine said Monday that the scarcity in Gaza had resulted in 40 food prices.
“Lift the seat and let humanitarian aid enter safely already a large scale,” implores the UN organization, which said it had actions outside Gaza, to feed the more than two million gazaouis for more than three months.
The Israeli army launched a land offensive on Monday in the center of the Gaza Strip and Deir El-Balah was the objective of the artillery fire. Tsahal had ordered residents to leave the facilities on Sunday, warning against imminent action in an area where he had never operated before.
Israel softened very partially at the end of May a total blocking imposed on the Gaza Strip in early March, which led to a very serious shortage of food, drugs and other basic needs. According to the Hamas Government Ministry of Government, 18 people are hungry in 24 hours between Saturday and Sunday.
The October 7 attack took the death of 1,219 people, mostly civilians. Israel launched a destructive offensive in retaliation in which at least 58,895 people, mainly civil, were killed, according to data from the Ministry of Health in Gaza, considered reliable by the UN.
Source: BFM TV
