'Beyond words.: WHO chief breaks down over Gaza human suffering

The head of the World Health Organisation (WHO) called for a ceasefire in Gaza and a “true solution” to the current Israel-Hamas conflict in an emotional plea to the global health body’s governing body on Thursday.

“I’m a true believer because of my own experience that war doesn’t bring solution, except more war, more hatred, more agony, more destruction. So let’s choose peace and resolve this issue politically,” WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesu told the executive board in Geneva during a meeting.

“I think all of you have said the two-state solution and so on, and hope this war will end and move into a true solution,” he said, before breaking down, describing the current situation as “beyond words”.