GENEVA, Oct 3 — Getting humanitarian aid through Israel into Gaza is layered with “delay after delay”, the World Health Organisation said today, as it decried “chronic shortages” of medical supplies.
Reinhilde Van de Weerdt, the WHO’s representative in the Palestinian territories, said the health situation in the Gaza Strip “remains utterly dire”, with none of its hospitals fully functional.
“Not enough humanitarian aid is entering Gaza, and definitely not enough to allow for a meaningful expansion and restoration of health services,” she told reporters in Geneva, speaking from Jerusalem.
She said Israel’s approval system for medical and other humanitarian supplies was proving a major bottleneck.
