24 hours left for aid to enter Gaza before 'catastrophe': WHO

Author:AFP 2023-10-17 01:55 50

The World Health Organization on Monday warned there were only "24 hours of water, electricity and fuel left" in the Gaza Strip before "a real catastrophe" sets in.

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WHO Regional Director for the Eastern Mediterranean Ahmed Al-Mandhari said the bombarded, besieged territory must be allowed to receive convoys of aid, currently stuck at the Rafah border crossing with Egypt.

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If assistance does not arrive, doctors will have to "prepare death certificates for their patients", he told AFP.

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