WHO chief 'deplores' attack on Palestinian Red Crescent building

The World Health Organization “deplored” on Tuesday Israel’s attack on the Palestinian Red Crescent Society run al-Amal hospital in the southern city of Khan Younis.

“Hospitals, ambulances, health workers, and people seeking care must be protected, at all times, under international humanitarian law. Today’s bombardments are unconscionable,” WHO chief Tedros Ghebreyesus, said in a post on X.

The Israeli strikes killed at least five civilians, including a five-day-old baby, the PRCS said earlier on Tuesday.

Ghebreyesus reiterated his call for an immediate ceasefire to the fighting, and “the accelerated and unimpeded flow” of food, medical supplies, other essential items Palestinians in the besieged enclave.

“Gazans are still receiving only a fraction of the supplies they had access to before the war, just as only a fraction of Gazans in need of medical evacuation are being evacuated,” he said.

“This is unacceptable in light of the dire humanitarian catastrophe which has unfolded over three months.”