GENEVA: Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, the Director-General of the World Health Organization, said today that Nasser Hospital in Khan Yunis, southern Gaza, is not functional anymore after a weeklong Israeli military siege followed by the ongoing raid.
“Both yesterday and the day before, the WHO team was not permitted to enter the hospital to assess the conditions of the patients and critical medical needs, despite reaching the hospital compound to deliver fuel alongside partners,” Ghebreyesus said in a post on X.
He continued, “There are still about 200 patients in the hospital. At least 20 need to be urgently referred to other hospitals to receive health care; medical referral is every patient’s right.”
The WHO Director-General asserted that “the cost of delays will be paid by patients’ lives,” calling for facilitating access to the patients and hospital to save lives.
Source: Palestine News and Information Agency – WAFA
Prime Minister Najib Mikati met today with Qatari Prime Minister, Foreign Affairs Minister Sheikh Mohammed bin Abdul Rahman Al Thani, during the ‘Munich Security Conference’ in Germany, where they discussed the situation in Lebanon and the work of the ‘Five-Year Committee’ to help resolve the vacuum crisis at the Lebanese presidential level.
Mutual talks also touched on the situation in southern Lebanon and the ongoing efforts to reach a ceasefire in Gaza.
Prime Minister Mikati also met with his Iraqi counterpart, Muhammed Shia Al-Sudani, and reiterated his gratitude to Iraq for ‘always standing by Lebanon.’
Source: National News Agency – Lebanon