Gaza Situation Spiraling Out Of Control: WHO

The situation in Gaza is spiraling “out of control,” World Health Organization (WHO) Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus warned, Akanksha Sharma reported for CNN.

A plane with WHO medical supplies ready for deployment to support the urgent health needs in Gaza waits in Al Arish for the establishment of humanitarian access through the crossing. I Photo: Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus Facebook

In a post on X, formerly known as Twitter, Tedros said that WHO’s supplies have been stuck at the border for four days, adding “every second we wait to get medical aid in, we lose lives.”

He called for the “violence on all sides to stop” and immediate access to “start delivering life-saving supplies” to Gaza.

On Saturday, Tedros had said that a plane with WHO’s medical supplies arrived in Egypt close to the Rafah crossing into Gaza.

With Gaza’s sole power plant running out of fuel last week, seawater desalination plants have been shut off, and drinking water is running out for hundreds of thousands of civilians. Hospitals are facing shortages of medical supplies and, in some cases, have been forced to makeshift morgues out of ice cream trucks to manage overflow.

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