WHO chief deplores 'unconscionable' strikes on Red Crescent in Gaza
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The head of the World Health Organization said he deplored the strikes on the Palestine Red Crescent Society headquarters in Gaza, branding them “unconscionable”.
The head of the World Health Organization on January 2 said he deplored the strikes on the Palestine Red Crescent Society headquarters in Gaza, branding them "unconscionable".
WHO chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said health must never be a target during conflicts, adding that Gazans were facing a "dire humanitarian catastrophe".
The Palestine Red Crescent Society (PRCS) said that Israel twice struck its headquarters in the southern city of Khan Yunis, resulting in "five casualties and three injuries" among displaced people who had sought refuge there and at a nearby hospital.
"I deplore today's strikes on the PRCS-run Al-Amal hospital," Tedros said on X, formerly Twitter.
He said WHO staff and colleagues from the UN humanitarian agency OCHA undertook a mission to the facilities on Tuesday, "where they witnessed extensive damage and displacement of civilians".
Tedros claimed that 14,000 people were sheltering at the hospital.
"Many of them have now left, and those remaining are extremely fearful for their safety and planning to leave a place they had turned to for refuge and protection," the UN health agency's chief said.
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