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WHO To Evacuate 1,000 Women, Children From Gaza

The World Health Organization has said that about 1,000 women and children needing medical care will shortly be evacuated from Gaza to Europe.

The Head, World Health Organization in Europe Hans Kluge, made this known in a statement on Monday.

Israel, which is besieging the war-devastated Palestinian territory, “is committed to 1,000 more medical evacuations within the next months to the European Union,” Hans Kluge said.

He said the evacuations would be facilitated by the WHO, the United Nations’ health agency, and the European countries involved.

On Thursday, UN investigators said Israel was deliberately targeting health facilities in Gaza, killing and torturing medical personnel there, accusing the country of “crimes against humanity”.

“This would never have happened if we did not keep the dialogue (open),” Kluge said.

“The same (is true) for Ukraine,” he added. “I keep the dialogue (open) with all partners.

“Now, 15,000 HIV-AIDS patients in Donbas, the occupied territories (of Ukraine), are getting HIV-AIDS medications,” the 55-year-old Belgian said in English, stressing the importance of “not politicizing health”.

“The most important medicine is peace,” he said, noting that healthcare workers had to be allowed to do their jobs in conflict zones.

Around 2,000 attacks have been registered on health centers in Ukraine since Russia’s invasion in February 2022, according to the WHO.

“There may be a kind of acceptance almost but this should cause outrage every single time,” he said.

“We will always continue to condemn this in the strongest possible terms.”

Kluge also expressed concern ahead of Ukraine’s third winter of war.

“Eighty percent of the civilian energy grid is damaged or destroyed. We saw it in the hospitals, surgeons operating with a lamp on their heads,” he said.

“It will be a very, very tough in winter''.

Despite strains on Europe’s healthcare systems, he said the 53 countries that make up the WHO European region, which includes central Asian countries were able to come together to prepare for future pandemics.

“In Europe, we did our homework,” he said.

Rik Peeperkorn, WHO representative in the occupied Palestinian territories, had said in May that around 10,000 people needed evacuating from Gaza for urgent medical care.

The WHO Europe has already facilitated 600 medical evacuations from Gaza to seven European countries since the latest war began there in October 2023.

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WHO To Evacuate 1,000 Women, Children From Gaza

The World Health Organization has said that about 1,000 women and children needing medical care will shortly be evacuated from Gaza to Europe.

The Head, World Health Organization in Europe Hans Kluge, made this known in a statement on Monday.

Israel, which is besieging the war-devastated Palestinian territory, “is committed to 1,000 more medical evacuations within the next months to the European Union,” Hans Kluge said.

He said the evacuations would be facilitated by the WHO, the United Nations’ health agency, and the European countries involved.

On Thursday, UN investigators said Israel was deliberately targeting health facilities in Gaza, killing and torturing medical personnel there, accusing the country of “crimes against humanity”.

“This would never have happened if we did not keep the dialogue (open),” Kluge said.

“The same (is true) for Ukraine,” he added. “I keep the dialogue (open) with all partners.

“Now, 15,000 HIV-AIDS patients in Donbas, the occupied territories (of Ukraine), are getting HIV-AIDS medications,” the 55-year-old Belgian said in English, stressing the importance of “not politicizing health”.

“The most important medicine is peace,” he said, noting that healthcare workers had to be allowed to do their jobs in conflict zones.

Around 2,000 attacks have been registered on health centers in Ukraine since Russia’s invasion in February 2022, according to the WHO.

“There may be a kind of acceptance almost but this should cause outrage every single time,” he said.

“We will always continue to condemn this in the strongest possible terms.”

Kluge also expressed concern ahead of Ukraine’s third winter of war.

“Eighty percent of the civilian energy grid is damaged or destroyed. We saw it in the hospitals, surgeons operating with a lamp on their heads,” he said.

“It will be a very, very tough in winter''.

Despite strains on Europe’s healthcare systems, he said the 53 countries that make up the WHO European region, which includes central Asian countries were able to come together to prepare for future pandemics.

“In Europe, we did our homework,” he said.

Rik Peeperkorn, WHO representative in the occupied Palestinian territories, had said in May that around 10,000 people needed evacuating from Gaza for urgent medical care.

The WHO Europe has already facilitated 600 medical evacuations from Gaza to seven European countries since the latest war began there in October 2023.

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