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WHO urges ceasefire & humanitarian access after Gaza hospital attack
The Business Guardian
|November 23, 2023
The World Health Organization called for a “urgent ceasefire” in response to the attack on Gaza’s Al-Awda Hospital, which resulted in the deaths of three clinicians and a patient companion.
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The World Health Organisation office in the occupied Palestinian territory took to social media ‘X’, and stressed the need for humanitarian access and the protection of health care.
They mourned the deaths of those three doctors and a patient companion who were reportedly killed in the attack on Wednesday. Reportedly, many were additionally injured in the attack.
Moreover, the hospital also sustained substantial damages, according to the post.
Meanwhile, since the beginning of the war, the WHO has documented 178 health attacks in the Gaza Strip that have resulted in 553 fatalities and 696 casualties, including 22 fatalities and 48 injuries to healthcare workers on duty.
This story is from the November 23, 2023 edition of The Business Guardian.
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