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_Published 2024-05-09. World Health Organization (WHO) Director-General, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, said Thursday the UN health body was “deeply concerned" about Israel’s increased military activities in Rafah, where most of Gaza’s people have fled for safety._


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## Transcript

Curtis to Gaza where we are deeply concerned about Israel's increased military activities in Rafa where most of gases people have fled for safety. An estimated 70 to 40,000 people have left craft a communist and deir el-balah, but more than 1.4 million people remain at risk in Rafa including 600,000 children. Already 1053 Hospital's the Niger hospital has had to shut down and its patients have moved elsewhere and Hospital staff are moving supplies and some equipment to safeguard them verify Crossing from Egypt into Ghana remains closed which is a major access point for supplies into Gaza. Fuel that we expected to be allowed in today has not been allowed in meaning.

We only have enough fuel to run Health Services in this house for three more days. Who has preposition some supplies in warehouses and hospitals, but without more air flowing into Gaza, we cannot sustain a life-saving support to hospitals who has no intention of withdrawing from Rafa and will stay and deliver alongside our partners. Who is coordinating the work of 20 mergency Medical Teams in Gaza comprising 179 Internationals from certain countries working alongside 800 local staff. These teams are embedded into an existing hospitals and have established five field hospitals. They have provided almost 400,000 consultations performed more than 18,000 surgeries and are more than 500 additional hospital beds assist wire is needed urgently for the sake of humanity and who calls for removal of all of Cycles to the delivery of urgent emergency rent assistance into an across Gaza at the scale that is required is a been characterised as a restricted military incursion are in limited offensive.

And the first actor that defensive is to cut off the two lights lights to 2.5 million people in Gaza. The first actress to stop the fuel stop the food stop the medicine at source at the bark. I don't call that limits us and I don't call that restricted. I called a surrey and position of total blockade on nearly two and a half million civilians who are already starving who already dying from preventable diseases and who need our protect.

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