Palestinian Red Crescent volunteers and UN staff help carry a wounded Palestinian man reportedly shot by Israeli forces while leaving Gaza City through the Zeitoun district on its southern entrance onto a stretcher before transporting him to a hospital by ambulance on Nov. 25, 2023, the second day of a truce between Israel and Hamas. (Credit: Mahmud Hams/AFP)
The head of the World Health Organization (WHO) on Tuesday said he was concerned about the prolonged checks of health convoys in the Gaza Strip and the detention of health workers there.
In a post on the X social media platform, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said a WHO-led mission to Al-Ahli Hospital in Gaza on Saturday was stopped twice at a checkpoint on the way to north Gaza and on the way back, and that some staff of the Palestine Red Crescent Society were detained on both occasions.
"We are deeply concerned about prolonged checks and detention of health workers that put lives of already fragile patients at risk," Tedros said.
Organization (WHO) on Tuesday said he was concerned about the
prolonged checks of health convoys in the Gaza Strip and the
detention of health workers there.
In a post on the X social media platform, Tedros Adhanom
Ghebreyesus said a WHO-led mission to Al-Ahli Hospital in Gaza
on Saturday was stopped twice at a checkpoint on the way...