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The Director-General of the World Health Organization (WHO), Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, said that decisions by major donors to stop funding for the largest supplier of humanitarian aid, UNRWA, the United Nations Agency, will have catastrophic consequences for the people of Gaza. .
Speaking at a press conference on Wednesday, he appealed for the decisions to be reconsidered, adding that no other body has the capacity to provide the scale and breadth of aid that the 2.2 million people in Gaza urgently need.
At least 17 countries have announced they will suspend funding to the UN agency since Israel claimed a dozen of its staff were involved in the Oct. 7 attack. Some of UNRWA's biggest donors such as the US, UK and Germany are among those that have suspended funding.
The WHO is facing "extreme challenges" trying to support the health system and workers in Gaza and has faced "great difficulty" trying to reach hospitals in the south of the Gaza Strip, according to Tedros.
The director-general cited "fierce fighting" near hospitals in Khan Younis, southern Gaza, as severely hampering access to health facilities for patients, health workers and supplies.
Tedros said the WHO sent medical equipment to the Nasser Medical Complex, also in southern Gaza, on Monday during a UN mission, but other missions to deliver food were rejected.
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