GAZA: The head of the World Health Organisation (WHO) has said that the international medical team has been forced to leave after 33 people were reported killed just outside the besieged Kamal Adwan Hospital in Beit Lahiya.
Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus in a statement said the team was deployed by the UN body just five days earlier after Israeli denials.
He added that displaced Palestinians, caregivers and many injured patients had to flee amid panic, leaving only 90 patients and 66 medical staff inside the “minimally functional” hospital in northern Gaza.
Meanwhile, Norway says it wants to see an “integrated Palestine” which includes the occupied West Bank and Gaza.
While addressing the 22nd Doha Forum panel, Norway’s Foreign Minister Espen Barth Eide said “We want an integrated Palestine comprising West Bank, Gaza, and relevant parts of Jerusalem.
“I believe the message now from this region is that that is perfectly doable. There might actually be a major deal, but it has to happen with Palestine,” Eide added.
“It’s not one conflict, but there is a root conflict that connects to all of them, which is the absence of a solution to the Palestinian question,” he said.
Saudi Arabia warns Gaza war weakens international security system
Saudi Arabia’s Minister of Foreign Affairs Prince Faisal bin Farhan has called on the international community to intensify its efforts to end the war in Gaza, warning that the ongoing war weakens the international security system.
“The [ongoing] war in Gaza and its expansion regionally weakens the international security system and threatens the credibility of international laws and norms in view of Israel’s continued impunity by targeting the United Nations and its bodies,” he said at the 20th IISS Manama Dialogue.
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According to the Gaza health ministry Israel’s war in Gaza has killed at least 44,664 people, a majority of civilians.
The toll includes 52 deaths in the previous 24 hours, according to the ministry, which said 105,976 people have been wounded in the Gaza Strip since the war started between Israel and Hamas on October 7, 2023.
The Wafa news agency reported that two Palestinians have been wounded during an attack by Israeli settlers in the town of At-Taybah, east of Ramallah, in the occupied West Bank.
The Palestinian Red Crescent Society said they provided medical assistance to the two young men and transferred them to a nearby hospital for further treatment.
