Since October 2023, WHO has participated in around 600 medical evacuations from Gaza to seven European countries, and soon more than a thousand children and women will be evacuated from Gaza.
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Around a thousand injured and sick women and children will soon be evacuated from Gaza, the European director of the World Health Organization (WHO) announced this Monday in an interview with France Presse.
Israel has committed to carrying out around “a thousand additional medical evacuations to the European Union in the coming months”stated Hans Kluge, underlining that this departure will be facilitated by the WHO, in collaboration with the host countries.
From October 2023, the The WHO has already participated in some 600 medical evacuations from Gaza to seven European countries.
“This would never have happened if we had not had the dialogue,” he added, stressing that the organization has the same concerns regarding Ukraine.
“We have to try not to politicize health”the person responsible highlighted in the same interview given to Agence France Presse.
At the moment, no further information has been detailed about the departure of a thousand citizens from Gaza..
Israel’s large-scale military operation against Gaza began after the Hamas attack in October last year, which left more than 1,200 people dead.
The Israeli attack has already claimed more than 40,000 lives in the Palestinian enclave, according to Hamas health officials.
The Palestinian-Israeli conflict year after year. Wars, intifadas and (few) agreements
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