GENEVA, Jan 25 (Reuters) – The top of the World Well being Group known as for a ceasefire and a “actual resolution” to the Israeli-Palestinian battle in an emotional enchantment to the physique's governing physique world well being on Thursday the place he described the circumstances in Gaza. as “infernal”.
WHO Director-Normal Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, who lived by way of the battle as a baby and whose kids hid in a bunker throughout bombings in Ethiopia's 1998-2000 border battle with Eritrea, has grow to be emotional that describes the circumstances within the bombed Gaza enclave the place greater than 25,000 folks. folks have been killed.
“I’m a real believer due to my very own expertise that battle brings no resolution, besides extra battle, extra hatred, extra agony, extra destruction. So let's select peace and resolve this downside politically,” Tedros advised the Council WHO Government. in Geneva throughout a dialogue on the Gaza well being emergency.
“I believe you all mentioned the two-state resolution and so forth, and I hope that this battle will finish and transfer into an actual resolution,” he mentioned, earlier than breaking down, describing the present state of affairs as “past phrases.”
Israel has stepped up its marketing campaign to get rid of Hamas after the militants stormed into Israel on October 7 and killed 1,200 folks, most of them civilians, and took greater than 200 hostages in Gaza.
Israel's ambassador mentioned Tedros' feedback represented a “full failure of management.”
“The director common's assertion was the embodiment of every thing that has been fallacious with the WHO since October 7. No point out of the hostages, the rapes, the homicide of Israelis, nor the militarization of hospitals and Hamas's despicable use of human shields,” Meirav Eilon Shahar mentioned in feedback despatched to Reuters.
He additionally accused the worldwide well being company of “collusion” with Hamas, saying that the WHO has turned a blind eye to Hamas navy actions in Gaza hospitals.
In the identical deal with, Tedros warned that extra folks in Gaza will die of starvation and illness.
“When you add all that up, I believe it's not straightforward to know how hellish the state of affairs is,” he mentioned. (Reporting by Cecile Mantovani and Emma Farge; Modifying by Jonathan Oatis)
