Israeli forces attack World Health Organisation convoy in Gaza
WHO Director General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus
The Palestine Chronicle reports on 18 September 2024:
The World Health Organization (WHO) Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus condemned Israel’s targeting of a convoy managed by the international organization in Gaza labeling the attack as “unacceptable.”
In a statement issued by WHO’s director-general posted on X, Ghebreyesus said that “on the way back from a mission to the northern Gaza and after a WHO-led convoy got clearance and crossed the coast road checkpoint, the convoy encountered two Israeli tanks. Shots were fired from the tanks near the convoy.”
The director-general stressed nonetheless that no one was hurt during the Israeli occupation army attack.
“Luckily nobody was hurt,” he said.
Ghebreyesus revealed that despite the “security risks” WHO’s teams had “remarkably” managed to reach Al-Shifa hospital to deliver supplies for the emergency room as well as supplies to the Palestine Red Crescent Society facilities in the north “including for the treatment of noncommunicable diseases.” “The teams also facilitated the rotation of emergency medical teams,” he emphasized.
Ghebreyesus accentuated the critical role humanitarian aid workers play in the service of Palestinians in Gaza.