{"id":14,"date":"2025-05-22T22:51:12","date_gmt":"2025-05-22T14:51:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/84news.top\/index.php\/2025\/05\/22\/who-chief-begs-israel-to-show-mercy-in-gaza\/"},"modified":"2025-05-22T22:51:12","modified_gmt":"2025-05-22T14:51:12","slug":"who-chief-begs-israel-to-show-mercy-in-gaza","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cloudfclub.com\/index.php\/2025\/05\/22\/who-chief-begs-israel-to-show-mercy-in-gaza\/","title":{"rendered":"WHO chief begs Israel to show 'mercy' in Gaza"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

In an emotional intervention at the WHO annual assembly, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said the war was hurting Israel and would not bring a lasting solution.<\/p>\n

“I can feel how people in Gaza would feel at the moment. I can smell it. I can visualise it. I can hear even the sounds. And this is because of PTSD (post-traumatic stress disorder),” said Tedros, 60, who has often recalled his own wartime upbringing in Ethiopia.<\/p>\n

“You can imagine how people are suffering. It’s really wrong to weaponise food. It’s very wrong to weaponise medical supplies.”<\/p>\n

The United Nations on Thursday began distributing around 90 truckloads of aid which are the first deliveries into Gaza since Israel imposed a total blockade on March 2.<\/p>\n

Tedros said only a political solution could bring a meaningful peace.<\/p>\n

“A call for peace is actually in the best interests of Israel itself. I feel that the war is hurting Israel itself and it will not bring a lasting solution,” he said.<\/p>\n

“I ask if you can have mercy. It’s good for you and good for the Palestinians. It’s good for humanity.”<\/p>\n

‘Systematic’ destruction<\/p>\n

WHO emergencies director Michael Ryan said that 2.1 million people in Gaza were “in imminent danger of death”.<\/p>\n

“We need to end the starvation, we need to release all hostages and we need to resupply and bring the health system back online,” he said.<\/p>\n

“As an ex-hostage, I can say that all hostages should be released. Their families are suffering. Their families are in pain,” he added.<\/p>\n

The WHO said Gazans were suffering acute shortages of food, water, medical supplies, fuel and shelter.<\/p>\n

Four major hospitals have had to suspend medical services in the past week, due to their proximity to hostilities or evacuation zones, and attacks.<\/p>\n

Only 19 of the Gaza Strip’s 36 hospitals remain operational, with staff working in “impossible conditions”, the UN health agency said in a statement.<\/p>\n

“At least 94 percent of all hospitals in the Gaza Strip are damaged or destroyed,” it said, while north Gaza “has been stripped of nearly all health care”.<\/p>\n

It said that across the Palestinian territory, only 2,000 hospital beds remained available — a figure “grossly insufficient to meet the current needs”.<\/p>\n

“The destruction is systematic. Hospitals are rehabilitated and resupplied, only to be exposed to hostilities or attacked again. This destructive cycle must end.”<\/p>\n

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Geneva (AFP) \u2013 <\/span> Fighting back tears, the head of the World Health Organization on Thursday urged Israel to have “mercy” in the Gaza war and insisted peace would be in Israel’s own interests. <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n

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