Cairo: The UN World Health Organisation issued an urgent appeal on Thursday for $7 million (Dh25 million) to pay for a comprehensive emergency response in the Palestinian territories amid the conflict with Israel.
Israeli strikes on Gaza have killed 230 Palestinians, according to the Gaza health ministry, in the conflict that started when group Hamas launched rockets from Gaza at Israel on May 10 in response to a Jewish settler bid to evict Palestinians from their homes in east Jerusalem.
WHO said the funds would enable a comprehensive emergency response in the next six months in Gaza as well in the occupied West Bank, which has also seen a surge in protests and violent street clashes.
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Dr. Gerald Rockenschaub, the World Health Organization director in the Palestinian territories, (L), listens to Palestinian doctors during a tour of the Limb Reconstruction Center at Nasser Hospital in Khan Younis City, southern Gaza Strip, March 5, 2020. (Adel Hana/AP)
The UN World Health Organization issued an urgent appeal Thursday for $7 million to pay for a “comprehensive emergency response” in Gaza and the West Bank amid the conflict with Israel.
Hamas and other Gaza terror groups have launched nearly 3,700 rockets at Israel since May 10, at times forcing people living near Gaza into bomb shelters around the clock.
Israel, in response, launched an extensive bombing campaign in the Gaza Strip. The humanitarian crisis has deepened in the impoverished Strip, with the UN saying 72,000 Palestinians have been displaced.
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